"Quodling's Delight", also known as "Goddesses", "The Oak and Ash" and "I Would I were in My Own Country" is an English air and country dance tune in 4/4 or cut time and A Minor. The parts are played AABB. The air appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (1609) (attributed to Giles Farnaby), Sir John Hawkin's Transcripts of Music for the Virginals and John Playford's Dancing Master of 1651 (where it appears as "Goddesses"). Walker, in History of Music in England (1924), says the “Quodling” title appeared first, set to this “jovial Elizabethan dance-melody” and that “Goddesses” appeared in the 17th century, followed by an 18th century permutation of the tune into the well-known "The Oak and Ash (and the Bonny Ivy Tree)". Researcher Graham Christian (A Playford Assembly, 2015) explains that quodling was a version of codling, meaning an unripe apple, "but was also a jocular term for a young law student, still full of 'quids' and 'quods'". It was also printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time vol. 1 (1859). It was recorded by Pieter-Jan Belder on Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 4: Giles Farnaby & John Bull (2015), Ian Terry, Tony Scheuregger and Judith Havens on Among the Leaves So Green (1976) and Idlewild on Epping Forest (2012).