He gave some verses adapted to the melody entitled 'Oh the snaw it melts the soonest,' and describes it as 'An air that has been familiar to me since I was 'penny-can high,' as the saying is' but the merit of which I was never aware of until now. I have forgot what we used to call it, but it now goes by the name of 'My Love is Newly Listed'. It is just one of those ditties which Gay would have put into the Beggar's Opera. Monotonous, yet original--full of mannerism, yet with a vein of unexpected feeling--it embodies, in a faint degree, that mixture of passion which is at the top of what you call 'musical expression." (Bruce & Stokoe).
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