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 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N2J6RVg02s\\
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h6uDJqpEHw
+**JENNY PLUCK PEARS**\\
+This is the first dance that Sharp reconstructed from
+The English Dancing Master (1651) and is a most elegant
+one. The changing meter of the tune bespeaks a
+sophisticated composition, but the subject matter is earthy.
+Margaret Dean-Smith relates the tune to a "Green
+Sleeves" model and adds: "No explanation can be offered
+for the title beyond recalling that ‘Jenny’ is a common
+type name for a rustic sweetheart and can be as
+disreputable as Betty or Moll; that a pear, or pear-tree has
+an oblique meaning, and that the whole may have much
+the sexual significance  The blatant
+sexualism of Pre-nineteenth-century popular English
+literature was an uncomfortable aspect for scholars until
+very recent times. References: Dean-Smith, 80