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-====== NORTH COUNTRY IASS ======
+====== NORTH COUNTRY LASS ======
 Set dance for 3 couples longways.
+Tune: The Northern Lass?
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 Al 1-4  1st couple set R. and L. and cast off one place.
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 @ Copyrigh t 1987 Kepas Consultants. Eynsham Oxford
+North Country Lass" appears to have originally been a song tune. Chappell (1859) mentions a ballad "North-country Lasse" in connection with the air "Quodling’s Delight." In fact, "North Country Lass" or "Northern Lass" has been a rather generic title exploited by several songs. At least one "North Country Lass" refers to Betty Maddocks, the 'fair maid of Doncaster', who (according to The Strand Magazine, 1906, p. 220) was "a heroine of the seventeenth century, who, being much sought after, bargained that she would only wed the man who could tire her out in dancing. A hundred gallants made the attempt, only to retire, utterly wearied, before the terrific energy of the young lady, who, presumably, lived single ever after."

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