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4 couple square
Dancing Master 3rd edition 1665
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.