Title Sang 16 (t) 
Short Title Gentle Shepherd, 1775 
Page 88-89 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //5456/51+//6561+/656//1+2+/3+5+2+3+ 
Indicated Tune Woes My Heart that We Shou'd Sunder (it) 
First Line Speak on, speak thus, and still my grief (fl) 
Verses
Stress Notes  556613 
Intervals  -2,2,2,-2,4,-3,-2,2,3,-3,-2,2,3,2,2,3,-4,2, 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1775 
Number A170.16 
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