ELIZABETHAN COUNTRY DANCES

By JOHN FITZHUGH MILLAR

Two-Couple Square Set (6)
1 Althea
2 Cuckolds All A-row
3 Heartsease
4 Hit and Miss
5 Rogero
6 Rufty Tufty

Three-Couple Circular Set (6)
7 The Gelding of the Devil
8 Greenwood
9 Jenny Pluck Pears
10 The Maid in the Moon
11 Put on Thy Smock a Monday
12 Putney Ferry

Three-Couple Longways Set (16)
13 All in a Garden Green (39)
14 The Beggar Boy/Lucina
15 The Black Nag
16 The Boatman/Trip and Go
17 Chestnut/Dove’s Figary
18 Dissembling Love/The Lost Heart
19 Greensleeves
20 Grimstock
21 Maiden Lane
22 Picking of Sticks (original tune)
23 Scotch Cap
24 The Shaking of the Sheets/Nightpiece
25 Shepherd’s Holiday/Labour in Vain
26 Upon a Summer’s Day
27 The Whish
28 Woody Cock

Four-Couple Longways Set (11)
29 Broom, the Broom, the Bonny, Bonny Broom
30 Cherrily and Merrily
31 Daphne
32 Goddesses/Quodling’s Delight
33 Lady Spellor
34 The maid Peept out at the Window/The Friar in the Well
35 Mall Peatley
36 The Merry, Merry Milkmaids
37 Milkmaids® Bob
38 The Shepherd’s Daughter
39 Ten Pound Lass

Four-Couple Square or Circular Set (16)
40 The Catching of Quails
41 Fain I Would/The Lusty Gallant
42 The Fine Companion
43 Hunsdon House
44 Hyde Park
45 If All the World Were Paper
46 Mage on a Cree
47 Millfield
48 Newcastle/Newcastle Old
49 Oaken Leaves
50 Oranges and Lemons
ST Peppers Black
52 Rose Is White and Rose Is Red
53 Sage Leaf
54 Up Tails All
55 Winifred’s Knot/Open the Door to Three

Circular Set for as Many as will
56 Dargason/The Sedany
57 Epping Forest
58 Gathering Peascods
59 Half Hannikin
60 Hey de Gie
61 Noel
62 Sellenger’s Round/The Beginning of the World

Non-progressive Longways Set for as Many as Will (2)
63 Drive the Cold Winter Away
64 The New Bo Peep/Pickadilla

Progressive Longways Set for as Many as Will (2)
65 Stanes Morris
66 Trenchmore/The Hunting of the Fox

Duple-Minor Progressive Longways Set for as Many as Will (14)
67 The Catching of Fleas
68 The Fits upon Me Now
69 The Friar and the Nun 
70 The Geud Man of Ballangigh/The Gaberlunzie Man (original tune)
71 Jog On
72 Lady, Lie near Me
73 Mad Robin
74 The New Figary
75 Nobody’s Jig
76 Paul’s Steeple
77 Paul’s Wharf
78 The Queen’s Jig (original tune)
79 Row Well, Ye Mariners :
80 Under and Over/The Jovial Tinker/Jones” Ale

Processional Double Circle for as Many as Will (5)
81 Basilina (no tune yet found)
82 The Black Almain
83 The Earl of Essex Measure
84 Tinternell
85 Turkeloney

Single File for as Many as Will (x)
86 The Farandole (no tune given)

Tunes only (Dance directions lost) (11)
All Flowers of the Broom
Barley Break
The Cushion Dance
Downright Squire/The Upright Esquier
I Care Not for These Ladies
John, Come Kiss Me Now
Mall Sims
Packington’s Pownde
Peggy Ramsey
Rural Dance about the Maypole
Watkin’s Ale

Names only (Dance directions and tunes lost) (3)
The Jolly Joiner
Tom Tiler
The Vicar of Saint Fools