Title Air 15 (t) 
Short Title Quaker's Opera, 1728 
Page 29 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //1+1/11+//76/54//31+/27//1+ 
Indicated Tune Tipling John (it) 
First Line As thieving John went gayly on (fl) 
Burden Text He thought to cheat the magistrate (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  1175321 
Intervals  -8,8,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,6,-7,6,2, 
Time Signature C/ 
Do
Date 1728 
Number R2.15 
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