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DANCES AND DANCING
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some prominence to their special characteristics—viz., Much Ado 2/1, 68, and Twelfth Nt. 1/3, 118.

The budget of dances here named includes—

1. Cinque-pace, or Sinkapace. 2. Coranto, or Courante. 3. Galliard. 4. Jig (Scotch). 5. Measure.

Much Ado 2/1, 68.

Beatrice. The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be not woo'd in good time: if the prince be too important [importunate], tell him, there is measure in everything, and so dance out the answer. For hear me, Hero; wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance, and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster till he sink into his grave.

Tw. 1/3, 118.

Sir To. What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?
Sir And. 'Faith, I can cut a caper.

L. 123.

Sir To. Wherefore are these things hid? … why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? My very walk should be a jig:sink-a-pace. What dost thou mean? is it a world to