“ The tune is variously called “Old Roger of Coverly for evermore, a Lancashire Hornpipe;” “Roger of Coverly;” “Roger a Coverly,” in Gay's opera Polly; “Roger de Coverly,” in Robin Hood; and “Sir Roger de Coverly,” in Fielding's Tom Jones. A song, “O Brave Roger de Coverly,” is contained in Pills to Purge Melancholy. The dance is an old-fashioned country-dance (or contredanse) , and is known in the United States as the “Virginia reel.” ”