ins_enfield_common
Enfield Common
Playford's Dancing Master in 1701
Interpreted by Philippe Callens in 1999.
Proper duple minor longways dance.
Tune: Enfield Common DM 1701 duple, 3/4
A1 1-2 Nbrs. face, set Rt. & Lt. 3-4 Nbrs. turn Rt-h once round A2 1-2 Nbrs. set 3-4 Nbrs. turn Lt-h once round B1 1-4 M. lead thro' W and cast back meet & turn S away 5-8 W. lead thro' M, cast, meet and turn S away B2 1-4 H-4 halfway round, and cloverleaf turn S, 1stC down, 2ndC up, ending facing Nbrs. 5-8 Three changes Rts. & Lts, starting Rt. with Nbr.
Recording: enfield_common-069-bn13mbt-13.mp3.zip
enfield_common-055-rsl06.mp3.zip
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95qpimoqVzA&t=102s
ENFIELD COMMON
The Dancing Master 1701
Nicolas Broadbridge 1995
Duple Minor longways
Al 1—4 All face neighbour, set right and left and turn right hand once round. (Note: The first step is on the 4th note of music). A2 1—4 All face neighbous set left and right and turn left hand once round. Bl 1—4 Men lead between the Women and cast back to places and half turn single away (1st Man-right and 2nd Man-left) to face partner. 5-8 Women lead between the Men and cast back to places and half turn single away (1st Woman-left and 2nd Woman-right) to face partner. B2 l-4 Circle four to left half way round, then all face neighbour and 2 changes of a square hey with hands, starting right hand with neighbour. 5-8 lst couple long cast down to 2nd place, starting by dancing in towards each other, and 2nd couple leading up in bars 7 and 8.
Thomas D'Urfey printed it as the vehicle for a ribald song in his Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. 4 (1719-1720). It begins:
On Enfield Common, I met a Woman, A bringing North Hall Water to the Town; Said I, fair Maiden, you're heavily laden, I'll light and give you ease in a Green Gown; Says she, 'tis good Sir, to stir the Blood, Sir, For the Green-sickness, Friend, will make me like it; Then in a Minute I left my Gennett, And went aside with her into a Thicket: Then with her leave there, a Dose I gave her, She straight confess'd her Sickness I did nick it.
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