Annotation:Wiltshire Wedding

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WILTSHIRE WEDDING. AKA and see "Friar and the Nun (1) (The)," "All in Misty Morning." English, Air. The earlier name for the tune is "The Fryar and the nun," in John Playford's English Dancing Master of 1650 and later editions. It appears under the above title in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Menlancholy, vol. IV, and in John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1728) as "Before the barn door crowing."

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