As in “The Playford Ball” (Playford, 11th ed. 1701)
Cecil Sharp, 1925
Recording: indian_queen-068-bn12pb09.mp3.zip
indian_queen--016.mp3.zip
indian_queen-priprec04.mp3.zip
Duple Minor Longways

   
 A1  1-4  1st corners set forward to each other, 
          and turn single back to place. 
     5-8  The same turn two-hands once around. 
 A2  1-8  2nd corners repeat A1. 
 B1  1-8  All right-hands across and left-hands back. 
 B2  1-4  Partners back-to-back. 
     5-8  Circular hey, three changes, beginning with partner.

Longways

     
   1st corners set, turn single; and turn each other.
   2nd corners the same.
   R hands across; L hands across.
   Partners back to back; circular hey 3 changes, partners facing.

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INDIAN QUEEN
John Dryden's tragedy “The Indian Queen” was converted into an opera by Henry Purcell shortly before he died in 1695. The score includes at least one tune which was later used as a country dance, the second air, which became the “Duke of Gloucester's March” in Thomas Bray's collection of 1699.

A tune called “The New Bore [Bourrée]” appears at the very end of the ninth edition of The Dancing Master (1695),