Ladye Nothinge's Toye Puffe

A short instrumental for solo guitar, it is the second track on Another Monday, recorded by Bill Leader in London in 1966. Renbourn said its mock-Tudor feel stood apart from the folk blues around it, adding: "It wasn't a new thing for me but it became a direction." In the notes to The John Renbourn Sampler (1971), where it appeared as Lady Nothynge's Toye Puffe, he joked that it would not even pass as a bad fake.

Colin Harper in Record Collector called it particularly exquisite and the first flowering of his interest in early music, and Andrew Shields of Toppermost found it oddly titled but extremely beautiful. A Totally Guitars lesson presents it as an example of modern counterpoint for acoustic guitar. Renbourn returned to it in 1985 with a new, intricate arrangement, New Nothynge, which opens The Nine Maidens, and the original has been collected on So Clear and The Transatlantic Anthology among others.

The upload in the hypersongs web is a performance by the guitarist Pierre Le Bras, not Renbourn's own recording.