Playford's Progeny

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====== SPRING GARDEN ======
Proper 4 couple longways dance with no progression\\
Playford's Dancing Master in 1657\\ 
Adapted by Cecil Sharp in 1912\\
Recording: {{ ::music:spring_garden--023b.mp3.zip |}}\\
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??? these sound the same, but are off different disks.
   
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   Fig I
A        All lead partner up a double and back twice:
B1       All balance back & forward, circle L in 4's 1/2 way, balance back & forward &
         change places (ends across set with partner, middles on side with neighbour);
B2,3,4   Repeat B1 3 times to original places:
   Fig II
A        In fours, fall back past neighbour on sides passing Rsh & cross Rsh with partner,
         then repeat to places;
B1       Ends cast, followed by middles, into lines across set, then set in lines and cross
         with opposite;
B2       New ends cast, followed by middles, into lines on sides, then set in lines and
         cross with partner;
B3,4     Repeat B1 and B2:
   Fig III
A  1-4   All face Mens' wall, move forward a double, 
         Men turn to face partner and all 
         cross with partner;
   5-8   All face We's wall, move forward a double, 
         Men turn to face partner and all 
         cross with partner:
B1       Ends meet and set as middles fall back 
         diagonally towards ends, then come forward 
         into end places, 
         then all arm R 1 1/2, ends with partner, 
         middles with neighbour;
B2,3,4   Repeat B1 3 times, arming L, R and L.</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQInPAlCDW8

**SPRING GARDEN**\\
Because this dance appears first in 1665, the reference
must be to the new Spring Garden at Lambeth, later to be
called Vauxhall. Samuel Pepys visited May 28, 1667.

‘I by water to Foxhall, and there walked in Spring
Garden. A great deal of company, and the weather and
garden pleasant: and it is very...cheap going thither, for a
man may go to spend what he will, or nothing, all is one.
But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and hear

fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here
laughing and there fine people walking is mighty
divertising."