edition of "Beaumont and Fletcher," that this ballad is
mentioned again in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," and likewise in a
comedy by John Tatham, 1660, called "The Rump, or Mirrour of the Times,"
wherein a Frenchman is introduced at the bonfires made for the burning
of the Rump, and catching hold of Priscilla, will oblige her to dance,
and orders the music to play _Fortune my foe_. Again, in "Tom Essence,"
1677, p. 37.

[270] A dance. Sir John Davies, in his poem called "Orchestra," 1596,
stanza 70, thus describes it--

"Yet is there one, the most delightfull kind,
A loftie jumping, or a leaping round,
Where arme and arme two dauncers are entwind,
And whirle themselues with strict embracements bound,
And still their feet an _anapest_ do sound:
An _anapest_ is all their musicks song,
Whose first two feet are short, and third is long."

71.

"As the victorious twinnes of Laeda and Ioue,
That taught the Spartans dauncing on the sands,
Of swift Eurotas, daunce in heauen aboue,
Knit and vnited with eternall hands,
Among the starres their double image stands,
Where both are carried with an equall pace,
Together iumping in their turning race."

[271] "Or, as it is oftener called, _passa mezzo_, from _passer_ to walk,
and _mezzo_ the middle or half; a slow dance, little differing from the
action of walking. As a Galliard consists of five paces or bars in the
first strain, and is therefore called a Cinque pace; the _passa mezzo_,
which is a diminutive of the Galliard, is just half that number, and
from that peculiarity takes its name."--Sir John Hawkins's "History of
Music," iv. 386. [Compare Dyce's second edition of Shakespeare, iii.
412.]

[272] i.e., St Leger's round. "Sellinger's round was an old country
dance, and was not quite out of knowledge in the last century. Morley
mentions it in his Introduction, p. 118, and Taylor the Water Poet, in
his tract, entitled, 'The World runs on Wheels;' and it is printed in a
'Collection of Country Dances,' published by John Playford in
1679."--Sir John Hawkins's "History of Music," iii. 288, where the notes
are engraved.

[273] See Plinii "Nat. Hist.," lib. v. c. 9.

[274] The author certainly in writing this beautiful passage had Spenser
("Faerie Queene," b. ii. c. 12) in his mind.

"The joyous birds shrouded in cheerful shade," &c.

--_Collier_.

[275] Alluding to the fish called th