The Compleat Country Dancing-Master/Book 1

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The
Compleat Country Dancing-Master.
Volume the Fourth.
Being a Collection of all the Celebrated Country Dances now in Vogue.
Perform’d at Court, the Theatres, Masquerades, and Publick Balls.
With Proper Tunes and Directions to each Dance.
The Tunes fitted for the Violin, Hoboy, or German Flute.
The 4th Edition.

London. Printed for I. Walsh, in Catharine Street, in the Strand.
Price Bound 3s 6d

​An Explanation of the several Characters us’d in this Book.

  • D. stands for Double. A Double is four Steps forward and backward, closing both Feet.
  • S. stands for— — — Single. A Single is two Steps, closing both Feet.
  • Set and turn S. Is a Single to one Hand, and a Single to the other, and turn single.
  • Wo. stands for Woman.
  • We. stands for— — — Women.
  • Cu. stands for— — — Couple.
  • Co. stands for— — — Contrary.
  • The Figure half round, is the Hey half round.
  • The whole Figure, is the Hey all four round.
  • Proper, is when the Men and Women are on their own Sides.
  •  ·  denotes the Strain of a Tune play’d once over.
  •  :  denotes— — — the Strain twice over.
  • ∴ denotes— — — the Strain thrice over.
  • ☉ stands for the Mens Places, in the Figure on the Top of each Page.
  • ☽ stands for— — — the Womens Places, in the Figure on the Top of each Page.

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An Alphabetical Table of all the Dances contain’d in this Volume.

A
A Trip to the Lawndry 9
Athel Brays 3
A Trip to Marybone 13
Aurelia and Galatea 39
America with the Minuet 102
Arundel Street 131
Apollo and Daphne 169
An Old Man, a Bed full of bones 170
Ala mode de France 173
A Soldier and a Sailor 174
Astrope Wells 179
B
Battle of the Bryn 8
Bath Medley 22
Buff Coat 23
Bobbing Joe 35
Butter’d Peases 48
Black Joak 57
Bore la Bass 52
Black and Grey 81
Bloomsbury Market 133
Black Bess 134
Bishop of Bangor’s Jigg 138
Bury Fair 145
Barley mow 146
Buskin 149
Bishop of Chester’s Jigg, or the fits come on me now 148
Bellamira 152
Black Jack 157
Bonny Dundee 178
Bouzon Castle 172
Black Nell 201
C
Cobler’s Jigg 20
Carpenter’s maggot 113
Cheshire Rounds 114
Coblers Hornpipe 116
Country Farmer 119
Christ Church Bells in Oxon 150
Cold and Raw 153
Cuper’s Garden 151
Cuckolds all a row 191
Christmas Cheer 202
Chearily and merrily 203
D
Dutchess of Bedford’s Delight 17
Draper’s Gardens 42
Dusty Miller 47
Drive the cold winter away 125
Dr Pope’s Jigg 126
Daniel Cowper 154
Dampier 166
De’el take the Wars 164
Dull Sir John 183
E
Epsom Wells 75
Edinborough Castle 53
Emperour of the Moon 93
English Paspy 91
Easter Eve 141
Enfield Common 147
Essex Building 180
Excuse me 189
F
Fie nay prethee John 31
From Aberdeen 67
Fidler’s Morris 98
Four Pence half penny farthing or the Jockey 175
Fryday Night - G
Green Sleeves and Pudding Pyes 36
Green Stockings 100
Greenwich Park 140
H
Huzza 12
Hunt the Squirrel 25
Happy Clown 26
Highland Laddie 40
Hap hazard 55
Hunsdon House 61
Happy meeting 75
Hills Maggot 87
Hey ho my honey 137
Hedge Lane 157
Hemp Dresser 161
Hey to the Camp 165
Hey Boys up go we 182
Have at they Coat old Woman 204
I
Joan Sanderson or the Cushion Dance 15
Jenny come tye my Cravat 24
I often for my Jenny strove 41
Joan’s Placket 34
Irish Ground 45
Ianthe the lovely 115
Irish trot 129
Jack’s Health 135
Jolly Breeze 195
Johnny cock thy Beaver 127
Irish Bore 178
K
Knot 123
Kemp’s Jigg 142
King of Poland 184
L
Luxenburgh 21
Lilli Burlero 38
Lumps of Pudding 43
Love lies a bleeding 74
Line’s Maggot 84
I am a Mariner 90
Lincoln’s Inn 97
Lord Carnarvan’s Jigg 164
Lady Day 107
Lord Byron’s Delight 110
Ladies of London 176
London’s Loyalty 196
Lord Byron’s Maggot 117
M
My ain kind deary 18
Madge in a tree 27
Moll Peatly the new way 45
Mulberry Garden 130
Mermaid 155
Mad Mell 150
Miller’s Jigg 190
Mr Young’s Delight 70
Mr Staggin’s Jigg 135
N
New Market 59
New Market 2d Part 60
New Year’s Eve 62
Nobody’s Jigg 63
Never love thee more 77
Nobe’s Maggot 101
Northern Nancy 162
O
O Mother Roger 56
Old Simon the King 59
Of noble Race was Shinkin 70
Old Butch-bor 53
P
Prince William 6
Pirro 11 ​
Pudding and Pies 33
Princess Amelia 44
Princess Royal 54
Parson upon Dorothy 64
Prince George 78
Princess 92
Princess’s Court 106
Portsmouth 103
Pall mall 127
Q
Queen Carolina 53
R
Running Footman 11
Ratcliff Cross 49
Roger of Coverly 86
Red House 89
Red Joak 115
Rub her down with straw 120
Rummer 136
Rigadoon 156
S
Soldier Laddie 7
Sage Leag 19
Spanish Gypsie 65
Sweet Kate 68
Smith’s Rant 73
Siege of Limerick 94
Shore’s Trumpet Tune 109
St Alban’s 118
Sawney was tall 188
Spring Garden 199
T
The new way of wooing 1
The Lads of Dunce 5
The Craftsman 4
The White Joak 10
Three Sheep Skins 16
The galloping Nag 30
The merry Milk maids 27
The Cuckow 32
’Twas within a furlong 37
The Intreague 50
The Rape 51
The Dumps 66
The Jovial Beggars 71
The Sailor’s delight 72
The Queen’s delight 80
The Mansel 105
The Beaux delight 108
Tunbridge walks 112
The Goddesses 121
The Pilgrim or Ld Foppington 144
Temple Change 139
The Coronation Day 158
The bonny grey ey’d morn 167
The Fryar and the Nun 192
Trenchmore 200
U
Under the Greenwood tree 23
Vienna 82
Volverton Hall 147
Valentine’s Day 181
Valiant Jockey 186
Up with aily 187
W
Walley Honey 2
Whitehall 51
Well’s humour 95
Whitehall Minuet 96
What you please 99
Watton Town’s End 122
Waltham Abbey 124
Whitney’s farewell 128
Winchester Wedding, or the King’s Jigg 132
Wooley and Georgy 159
Y
Yellow Joak 88
Young Sir Solomon 168
Young Jemmy 171
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