Playford's Progeny

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====== Old Hob' or 'The Mouse Trap' ======
Walsh in 1719. \\
Adapted by Andrew Shaw in 2002  \\
proper duple minor\\
Tune: Old Hob' or 'The Mouse Trap\\

<code>
Al 1-4 1st corners right-hand turn once around.
   5-8 1s long cast down into 2nd place, 2s meeting and leading up into 1st place.
A2 1-4 1st woman and 2nd man (now in Ist corner positions) right-hand turn once around.
   5-8 2s long cast down into 2nd place, 1s meeting and leading up into 1st place.

B1 1-4 1st corners change places, then 2nd corners change places.
   5-8 All four circle left halfway, then 1s short cast down into 2nd place, 2s leading up.
B2 1-4 1s lead down through next 2s below and cast back to progressed places (skip-change step)-
   5-8 Partners two-hand turn once around.</code>
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12TOQ4G3b0\\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX6Boask1KA\\

William Chappell (1855) records that the words are by Thomas D'Urfey set to a tune that appeared first in a 1696 play written by Doggett called The Country Wake.
<code>
Of all the simple things we do,
To rub over a whimsical life;
There's no one folly is so true,
As that very bad bargain, a wife.
We're just like a mouse in a trap,
Or rat that is caught in a gin;
We start and fret, and try to escape,
And rue the sad hour we came in.</code>
"Marriage, or, The Mouse Trap"