Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ny8te44do

Dance by Neal 1726.
Proper duple minor dance.
Interpreted by Jackson & Fogg in 1990.
Found in “The Playford Assembly”.
Tune: YELLOW STOCKINGS

   A1 1st corners turn twice with two hands
   A2 2nd corners do the same
   B1 1C slip down (3) & back (3) & cast (6)
   B2 4 changes of circular hey

Source: Neal Book c.1726

Recordings: yellow_stockings-_064-bn3sp14.mp3.zip

In Shakespeare's time Londoners understood the wearing of yellow stockings to signal illicit sexuality and marital betrayal [2]. The color yellow has symbolized jealousy since Elizabethan times. He wears yellow stockings was, from the late 16th century through the 18th century, a way of saying He is jealous.

Henry Playford first printed it in 1698 in his Dancing Master (under the title “Mad Moll (1)”, a dance named for Mary “Moll” Frith, and amateur actress and professional pickpocket), and later in his 1703 edition with another dance under the title “Virgin Queen.” In 1705 Dean Swift adapted a nursery song to it beginning “Here my kitten, my kitten” (“O my Kitten”). The title “Yellow Stockings” for the tune appear in dancing master Daniel Wright's North Country Frisks (1713) and (as “Yallow Stockings”) i