Playford's Progeny

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====== The Humours of Dublin ======
or **Slow men of London**\\
Neal 1726\\
Fogg/Jackson 1990\\
Duple minor longways\\

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Al 1-4 1s set right and left to partner and cast down into 2nd place, 2s moving up.
A2 1-4 Is set right and left to partner and cast up into 1st place, 2s moving down.
B1,B2 1-8 1s whole figure eight down through the 2s (skipping).

A3 1-4 All four right hands across.
A4 1-4 All four left hands across.
B3 1-4 Partners set right and left, twice.
B4 1-4 Three changes of a circular hey, starting with partner.</code>

Video: https://upadouble.info/dance.php?id=TheHumoursOfDublin&publication=The%20Playford%20Assembly

The theory of the four humours, which, according to long-standing tradition, was developed by the semi-legendary physician Hippocrates, understood the
human body as comprised of four essential fluids: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. A human being in perfect health had all of these, correctly mixed
and proportioned. An imbalance in favor of any one of them produced “temperaments,” or personality types: the free and lively sanguine, the quick-tempered
and ambitious choleric, the depressive and solitary melancholic, and the peaceable and sluggish phlegmatic.\\ 
By the 18th century,
“humour” was more likely to mean more generally a whim, mood, or fancy. There were many tunes and dances that evoked this lighter conception of the term—
“The Humours of Covent Garden” “The Humours of the Bath”  and “The Humours of the Age”.

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