Recording: half_hannikin--the_recruiting_officer-bfdr02.mp3.zip

   (Couples as many as will in a circle.)
   Holding hands, double into the center and back. Repeat.
   Side left and right with your partner.
   Arm right once around with your partner.
   Arm left one and a half times, so that you end up in a new spot.
   Take hand in a circle & begin again.

From John Fitzhugh Millar's 1985 book, Elizabethan Country Dances. (Thanks to Charlene Charette.) The original Playford is a longways dance. See http://rgoldman.org/pryanksters/dances/halfhan.htm

See an animation of this dance.