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<p>Created page with &quot;No. 44. Dabbling in the Dew This is a very popular song all over England, and I have taken down a large number of variants. The words, which vary but little, are very free an...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>No. 44. Dabbling in the Dew<br /> <br /> This is a very popular song all over England, and I have taken down a large number of variants. The words, which vary but little, are very free and unconventional. I have therefore taken some of the lines in the text from Halliwell’s &#039;&#039;Nursery Rhymes&#039;&#039; (p. 35). In some versions, it is “strawberry leaves,” not “dabbling in the dew,” that “makes the milkmaids fair”—which I am told, though I have not been able to verify it, is the version given in Mother Goose’s &#039;&#039;Melodies for Children&#039;&#039; (Boston, ed. 1719).<br /> <br /> The tune is in the Æolian mode.<br /> <br /> For other versions with words, see the &#039;&#039;Journal of the Folk-Song Society&#039;&#039; (volume iv, pp. 181–285); &#039;&#039;Songs of the Four Nations&#039;&#039; (p. 58); &#039;&#039;English Folk Songs for Schools&#039;&#039; (No. 23); and Butterworth’s &#039;&#039;Folk Songs from Sussex&#039;&#039; (No. 9).</div>

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