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======Chelsea Reach ======


   4 couple square

   Dancing Master 3rd edition 1665

<code>
   Part 1
   A1        1-4         Taking inside hands, partners forward a double into the
                   center and back.
           5-8         Partners face, all slow set and honor right, then left.
   A2        1-4        All lead away a double away from the set and back.
           5-8        Partners face, all slow set and honor right, then left.
   B1        1-4        Side couples meet, turn towards partner, then face
                   out (standing hack to back with opposite) while head
                   couples three-quarters gypsy right, pass through corner
                   place and face side couples, forming lines across the
                   hall.
           5-6         Facing couples circle four halfway end facing up and
                   down.
           7-8         Opposite people change places by right hands, and all
                   turn left, into —
   B2         1-4         Same four left hands across, skipping.
           5-8         Partners turn two hands to original place.
   B3         1-4         Head couples meet, turn towards partner, then face out
                   (standing back to back with opposite) while side couples
                   three-quarters gypsy right, pass through corner place
                   and face head couples, forming lines up and down the
                   hall.
           5-6         Facing couples circle four halfway ending facing across
                   the hall.
           7-8         Opposite people change places by right hands, and all
                   turn left, into ——
   B4         1-8         Repeat B2. 
   Part 2
   A1,2         1-16         Partners side (Cecil Sharp style), slow set and honor
                   right, then left. That again.
   B1         1-2         Partners take two hands, and men place women into the
                   center of the set.
           3-4         Letting go hands, partners change places, passing right
                   shoulder,
           5-8         Partners change places again (passing right shoulder),
                   then women right hands across halfway while men skip
                   counterclockwise halfway round the set, meeting part-
                   ner in opposite place.
   B2         1-8         Repeat A2 to places, substituting left for right (Women
                   place men, partners change by left shoulder twice, men
                   left hands across halfway women skip clockwise halfway
                   to original places).
   Part 3
   A1,2         1-16         Partners arm right, slow set and honor right, then left.
                   That again, arming left.
   B1         1-4         Corners, joining right hands, lead out a double, fall back
                   and face each other, to begin —
           5-8         Four changes of grand right and left, skipping.
   B2         1-8         Repeat A2 to original place.</code>
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