Title Song 22 (t) 
Short Title Convivial, 1782 
Page 50-51 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //17-6-/345//663/1+1+7//665/443 
First Line Old poets have told us, when they were grown mellow (fl) 
Burden Text Which nobody can deny &c (bt) 
Verses 12 
Stress Notes  136164 
Intervals  -2,-2,5,2,2,2,-4,6,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2, 
Key Signature FU# 
Time Signature 6/8 
Do
Date 1782 
Number E4.23 
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