Title Riddle Wittily Expounded, A (t) 
Short Title Pills 4, 1719-20 
Page 129-32 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //17-6-6-/7-121//7-12/333//34-323/332 
First Line There was a lady in the north country (fl) 
Burden Text Fa la, &c.; lay the bent to the bonny broom (bt) 
Verses 23 
Stress Notes  177333 
Intervals  -2,-2,2,2,2,-2,-2,2,2,2,-7,7,-2,2,-2, 
Key Signature Bb 
Time Signature C/ 
Do Bb(ED 
Date 1719-1720 
Number P4.64 
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