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Nancy Dawson, when a little girl, was employed in setting up skittles for players in High Street, Mary-le-bone, London. She was agile, graceful, and had an attractive figure. She first appeared as a dancer at Sadler’s Wells theatre, where she soon attracted much attention, and in a short time became a great favorite. A rhymster wrote a song for her which was introduced (1764) into the play, “Love in a Valley.” It was also arranged as a hornpipe for the harpsichord and sung by young ladies throughout England. Children sang it in the play, “Here we go round the Mulberry bush.” The popularity of Nancy Dawson was at its height in 1769.