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WHEN FIRST I LAID SEIGE TO MY CHLORIS. English, Air. The air was published by John Gay in his The Beggar's Opera (1729) where it appears under the title "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure." The words to the original song were written by Sir Charles Sedley. The air also appears in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. VI, 1720.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 58.

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