Note 782 — FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES; OR, THE ANT AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
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Sellenger’s round] “i. e. St. Leger’s round ... was an old country-dance, and was not quite out of knowledge at the beginning of the present century, there being persons now living who remember it.” Sir J. Hawkins’s Hist. of Music, vol. iii. p. 288, where the notes of it are given from a collection of country-dances published by Playford in 1679.