%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE/ Downfall of Dancing;/ OR,/ The overthrow of three Fidlers, and three Bagg-Pipe-Players,/ Who Lately broke all their Fiddles and Bagg-pipes, and Tore their Cloaks; so that they/ are utterly ruin'd: All this was done in a fearful Fray, when one of the Fidlers catch'd his/ Wife with his Fellow Bagg pipe player, at Uptails all. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1702 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/30/2007 21201

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3.188 R233023 1 Robin Goodfellow Dulcina Robin Goodfellow THree Pipers, and three Fidlers too,/ they all belonged to a Gang, to play the Game at Uptails all. [with variations] Pepys 3.188 Wing D2085[A] Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 188 THE/ Downfall of Dancing;/ OR,/ The overthrow of three Fidlers, and three Bagg-Pipe-Players,/ Who Lately broke all their Fiddles and Bagg-pipes, and Tore their Cloaks; so that they/ are utterly ruin'd: All this was done in a fearful Fray, when one of the Fidlers catch'd his/ Wife with his Fellow Bagg pipe player, at Uptails all. THE Downfall of Dancing; OR, The overthrow of three Fidlers, and three Bagg-Pipe-Players, Who Lately broke all their Fiddles and Bagg-pipes, and Tore their Cloaks; so that they are utterly ruin'd: All this was done in a fearful Fray, when one of the Fidlers catch'd his Wife with his Fellow Bagg pipe player, at Uptails all. The Downfall of Dancing; Or, the Overthrow of Three Fidlers, and Three Bagpipe Players, Who Lately Broke All Their Fiddles and Bagpipes, and Tore Their Cloaks; So That They Are Utterly Ruined: All This Was Done in a Fearful Fray, When One of the Fidlers Caught His Wife With His Fellow Bagpipe Player, at Uptails All. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 317 damaged surface vertical rules 1671-1702 Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate. J. Deacon Spufford and BBTI

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T hree Pipers, and three Fidlers too, they all belonged to a Gang, One Fidler had a Wife 'tis true, and she as good as e're did twang: One Piper he, most Craftilee, did give the Fidlers wife a fall, With her consent, then too't they went, to play the Game at Uptails all. Quoth she, the pleasure doth excell, therefore play me the other strain, He pleas'd the Fidlers Wife so well, that they must needs go too't again:
The Fidler missing him so long, he stepped home to give a call, Where suddenly he did espy, the Piper playing at Uptails all. This did the Fidler so provoke, and all his Senses did surprize, Then giving him a sturdy stroak, a dreadful Quarrel did arise: Thus blow for blow, then too't they go, the Fidler he was stout and tall, Then with a stroak, his Pipes he broke, for playing the Game at Uptails all.
Tush Husband, be not in a Rage, O strive to Mollifie your mind, Let reason now you wrath asswage, for he has bin to me most kind: I do profess, in my distress, his Love and kindness was not small; Sweet Husband dear thou need not fear, I scorn to play at Uptails all. Why should you be in such a heat, dear Husband I was in a Sound, He came to fell my Pulses beat, as I lay panting on the ground: Then why shouldst thou this Quarrel make, to fight and chase, and fret and brawl, I do protest 'tis your mistake, to think we play'd at Uptails all. And when they were in this debate, the rest of all the tribe, came in, He did to them in brief Relate, what he before his eyes had seen, He then did rave, and cal'd him Slave, and thus from words to blows did fall, A bloody fray, was there that day, for playing thus at Uptails all. The Pipers took their Pipers part, and shook the Fidlers by the Cloak, They with a bold undaunted heart, did deal them many a sturdy stroak:
Their Cloaks they tore in this uproar, as they in this confusion fall, The Fidlers wife did cause the strife, in playing a Game at Uptails all. The Pipers did the Fidlers Maul, and now begins the Revel rout, The Fiddles flew in pieces small, and Bagg-pipes they did flye about Those haughty fools, did break their tools their Crouds and pipes in pieces small, And she the while did stand and smile, to think of the Game of Uptails all. At length this did subdue the pride, of all this cross confused crew, The Room bestrew'd from side to side, with pipe and broken Fiddles too: So now this rout, and dreadful bout, did prove the Fidlers fatal fall, And Pipers too, and all the Crew, did curse the Game of Uptails all. Those Pipers and those Fidlers they, yea, every man and Mothers son, Had never an Instrument to play, those creeping Curs are all undone: And now too late, they curse their Fate, they tare their hair and fret their gall, For in this fight they are Ruin'd quite, and Swear they'l ne'r play Uptails all.
Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate.