where the lively
character of the dance is clear. Mr Ford puns on 'wine,' 'pipe,' and
'canary.' Of course _he_ means _whine_, _pipe_ (for dancing to), and
the _Canary_ that he meant Falstaff to dance.

_Wiv._ III, ii, 83.

_Host._ Farewell, my hearts. I will to my honest knight
Falstaff, and drink _canary_ with him.

_Ford._ [_aside_] I think, I shall drink in _pipe-wine_
first with him; I'll make him _dance_.

And next, Lafeu connects the canary with 'spritely fire and motion.'

_All's Well_ II, i, 74.

_Lafeu._ ... I have seen a medicine
That's able to breathe life into a stone,
Quicken a rock, and make you _dance canary_
With spritely fire and motion.

There are two specially important passages which mention several
dances at one time, so as to give some prominence to their special
characteristics--viz., _Much Ado_ II, i, 68, and _Twelfth Nt._ I, iii,
118.

The budget of dances here named includes--

1. Cinque-pace, or Sinkapace. 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_.

* * * * *

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. Praetorius (b.
1571) says a Galliard has _f