As in “The Playford Ball”
Bernard Bentley, 1980
Longways for 3 couples
Recording: joy_after_sorrow-074-bnntcap-02.mp3.zip
joy_after_sorrow--023b.mp3.zip
joy_after_sorrow-psp06.mp3.zip

   A1 1-4 With two waltz steps, 1st man move down center 
          to bottom of set while 1st woman move down 
          outside the set (1-2), 
          and both turn single to right (3-4).
      5-8 1st man move up outside to original place while 
          1st woman move up center (5-6), 
          and both turn single to right (7-8).
   A2 1-2 1st couple set forward to each other, then face down.
      3-8 All mirror hey, 1st couple going between 2nd couple to begin.
   B1 1-2 1st man forward a double to 2nd woman, 
          take her left hand in his right, and both face up.
      3-6 1st man lead 2nd woman up, 
          turn half-way around as a couple, 
          and lead down center to face 3rd couple, 
          2nd man moving to top on outside.
      7-8 1st man and 2nd woman {improper} turn single, 
          man to left, woman to right.
      9-16 The same half figure-eight through the couple 
           above and turn two-hands once around in middle 
           place, ending proper.
   B2 1-8 1st man, 2nd woman {on his right} and 
          1st woman {on his left} circle three-hands clockwise, 
          once-and-two-third~ around, ending with 1st couple 
          improper in middle place.
      9-16 1st couple, crossing, lead up to top place and 
           face (9-10), honor each other (11-12) 
           and cast down to bottom of set, 3rd couple moving up.
      Repeat dance twice more.

See an animation of this dance.
Video: http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/ecd/playford/133-joy-after-sorrow
JOY AFTER SORROW This dance appears set to two different tunes, “Joy after Sorrow” and “Love and Beauty,” both in 3/4 time, surely implying the use of a minuet step for the figures. As “Joy after Sorrow” it appeared in 1718 (DM IL:3) with the music which had been printed with a contemporary song: “Joy after Sorrow…to the Duke d'Aumond's Minuet.” It celebrates the 1714 arrival of George I from Hanover to fill the English throne.
Let Burgundy flow, let the glass run o'er,
Let the glass run o'er boys,
To cure all our woe, let the glass run over the brim.
Though Anna is gone, think of it no more,
Think of it no more, boys,
Toast away your bumpers to him,
Tho' the feuds were so big,
‘twixt Tory and Whigg,
That the mischiefs pursuing
Prov'd almost our ruin Like a prophet I know, They will be no more so, We've a King will unite now Both High-Church and Low. DUrfey, Wit and Mirth (London: 1719), 2 42