2. Coranto, or Courante. 3. Galliard. 4.
Jig (Scotch). 5. Measure.
_Much Ado_ II, i, 68.
_Beatrice._ The fault will be in the _music_, cousin, if you
be not woo'd _in good time_: if the prince be too important
[importunate], tell him, there is _measure_ in everything,
and so _dance_ out the answer. For hear me, Hero; wooing,
wedding, and repenting, is as a _Scotch jig_, a _measure_,
and a _cinque-pace_: the first suit is _hot and hasty_, like
a _Scotch jig_, and full as fantastical; the wedding,
_mannerly modest_, as a _measure_, full of _state and
ancientry_; and then comes repentance, and with his bad legs
falls into the _cinque-pace faster and faster_ till he sink
into his grave.
_Tw._ I, iii, 118.
_Sir To._ What is thy excellence in a _galliard_, knight?
_Sir And._ 'Faith, I can _cut a caper_.
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L. 123.
_Sir To._ Wherefore are these things hid?... why dost thou
not _go to church in a galliard_, and _come home in a
coranto_? My very _walk_ should be a _jig_: ...
_sink-a-pace_. What dost thou mean? is it a world to hide
virtues in? I did think, by the excellent constitution of
thy leg, it was formed under the _star of a galliard_.
To take these five dances in order--
1. Cinquepace is the name of the original Galliard.
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