This is a song from a Restauration comedy, "The Marriage-Hater Match'd" (1683) by Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723). The incidental music for the play is by Henry Purcell (1659-1695), including the tune for this perky song. Tune and lyrics were later published in D'Urfey's "Pills To Purge Melancholy". Played as a mandolin quartet (two mandolins, tenor guitar and mandocello) based on a setting by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni from her Big Book Of Mandolin Trios, Vol. 3. Evelyn also included this tune in a free PDF "Election Collection" of tunes with titles that work as political commentary, posted to the Cafe at the time of the 2018 midterms. However, I can't find the thread now and suspect it got deleted for politcal content. 1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin (x2) Vintage Viaten tenor guitar Suzuki MC-815 mandocello https://youtu.be/nQQDakNuAhc Martin
No need to hide the Embergher, it sounds fine in your able hands, Martin.
Thanks, Christian. The Embergher is a very fine instrument, but quite different in tone character to the Vinaccia. Always striking to switch. Also different ergonomically, with its extremely narrow nut (less than 1") and sloping radiussed fretboard. Martin