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KEIGN OF CHAKLES II.
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The following tune, which has much the same character as The Bant, is con-
tained in the second and subsequent editions of The Dancing- Master, either as
Winifred' 's Knot, or Open the door to three.
Cheerfully.
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CUPID'S TREPAN.
This was a very popular ballad tune, and it acquired a variety of names from
the different ballads that were sung to it at different periods. I have not,
however, observed any of these to have been issued by printers earlier thau those
of the reign of Charles II. (Thackeray, Coles, &c), but there are many extant
of later date.
Among the various names of the tune, may be cited, Cupid's Trappan; Up
the green Forest; Bonny, bonny bird; Brave Boys ; TJie Twitcher ; A Damsel
Tin told ; and I have left the world as the world found me.
The following ballads were sung to it : —
" Cupid's Trappan, or, The Scorner scorn'd, or, The Willow turn'd into car-
nation : described in The Ranting Resolution of a forsaken maid. To a pleasant
new tune now all in fashion." It commences : —
" Once did I love a bonny brave bird, Up the green forest, and down the green fo-
And thought he had been all my own, Like one much distressed in mind, [rest,
But he lov'd another far better than me,
And has taken his flight and is flown,
Brave Boys.
And has taken his flight and isjiown.
There are many copies of this ballad, and, among them, two will be found in the
Douce Collection, one of which is entitled, " Cupid's Trappan, or, Up the green
Forest," &c.
There was quite a ballad- contest between the sexes, sung to this air, for in
answer to the above we have, firstly, " A young man put to his shifts, or, The
Ranting Young Man's Resolution," &c, to the tune of Cupid's Trappan (Rox., ii.
548, and Douce, 262,) commencing —
" Of late did I hear a young damsel complain,
And rail much against a young man,
His cause and his state I'll now vindicate,
And hold battle with Cupid's Trappan, Brave Boys,
And hold battle with Cupid's Trappan.
Then came " The Plowman's art of wooing" (Rox., ii. 260) : —
" The brisk young Ploughman doth believe,
If he were put to trial,
There's not a maid in all the Shire
Could give him the denial."
I hoopt and I hoopt, and I flung up my
hood, [Brave Boys.
But my bonny bird I could not find,
But my bonny bird I could not find."