Title Air 27 (t) 
Short Title Beggar's Opera, 1765 
Page 53 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //443/21//27-/123//443/21 
Indicated Tune Lovely Lass to a Friar Came, A (it) 
First Line Thus when a good housewife sees a rat (fl) 
Stress Notes  422142 
Intervals  -2,-2,-2,2,-3,2,2,2,2,-2,-2,-2, 
Key Signature FU# 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1765 
Nota Bene Music is printed upside down 
Number R58.28 
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