The Playford Ball 1657
Cecil Sharp, 1911
longways 3 couples

   Part I
   A  1-8 Partners lead up a double and fall back a double. That again.
   B1 1-2 1st couple take two-hands and move up four slips.
      3-4 2nd couple the same.
      5-6 3rd couple the same.
      7-8 All turn single right.
   B2 1-8 Repeat B1, slipping back to place in reverse order, 3rd couple
          slipping down first.
          
   Part II
   A  1-8 Partners side twice.
   B1 1-8 1st man and 3rd woman change places with 4 slip steps, leading with
          right shoulder and passing back-to-back.
      3-4 1st woman and 3rd man the same.
      5-6 2nd couple the same.
      7-8 All turn single right. (Turn single NOT present in DM 1670 original.)
         B2 1-8 Repeat B1 back to place.
         
   Part III
   A  1-8 Partners arm right, then left.
   B1 1-8 Men hey for three, skipping: 1st man begin by passing right shoulder.
   B2 1-8 Women hey as in B1, men turn single on last four beats of music.
          (Turn single NOT present in DM 1670 original.)

Recordings: black_nag--010.mp3.zip
black_nag--032.mp3.zip
See an animation of this dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05Zts9gN2s

THE BLACK NAG
With a dance and tune sharing similarities with the earlier “Millison's Jig” (DM I: 1651-1690), “Black Nagg,” corrected to “Black Nag” in 1686, became “The Gallopping Nag” in 1695. When John Walsh appropriated the entire contents of the sixteenth edition of the first volume of The Dancing Master (1716) for his Compleat Country Dancing Master of 1718, the editors of The Dancing Master substituted a new figure with this tune in the last two editions.