_with ceremony_; and
_at length_ to Trenchmore, and the Cushion dance: _Then_ all
the company dances, lord and groom, lady and kitchen-maid,
_no distinction_. So in our court in queen _Elizabeth's_
time, _gravity and state_ were kept up. In king _James's_
time things were _pretty well_. But _in king Charles's
time_, there has been nothing but Trenchmore and the
Cushion-dance, _omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoite cum
toite_.'

There are very many passages of interest, containing references to
Dances. The first one here given is an instance (in Shakespeare's very
text) of singing a dance and dancing to it at the same time. Here the
_Brawl_, and _Canary_, the first in alphabetical order, are coupled
together.

_L.L.L._ III, i, 9.

_Moth._ Master, will you win your love with a _French
brawl_?

_Arm._ How meanest thou? _brawling in French_?

_Moth._ No, my complete master; but to _jig off a tune_ at
the tongue's end, _canary to it_ with your feet, ... _sigh a
note_, and _sing a note_.'

Two other examples of dancing to one's own singing are, _Mids._ V, ii,
25 and _Wiv._ V, v, 93.

The _Brawl_ was written in quick four-in-a-bar time. There are several
well-known tunes to it. [See Note on Arbeau's 'Orchesographie.' 1588.]
The derivation of the name is from the French, _bransle_, a totter,
swing, shake, etc., or perhaps from Old French _Brandeler_, to wag,
shake, swing. Skeat thinks the original dance may have been a _sword_
dance, and with this he connects the word Brandish.[20] It was danced,
sometimes in a ring, holding hands, and sometimes 'at length.'

[Footnote 20: This hardly seems a necessary theory. See the Note on
'Orchesographie,' where the 'swinging' movement is fully accounted
for.]

The _Canary_ (or Canaries) was in 6/8 time, and was a lively dance.
[Stainer and Barrett's Dict. gives one by Delaborde in 4/4 time.]
There are many examples by Lully and other Frenchmen of the 17th
century. One of Lully's, in Lajarte's 'Airs a Danser,' dates 1666.
There is no history of the name. Skeat says it is so called from the
Canary Islands. Hawkins does not attempt to account for the title, but
cunningly infers that it is of English origin because it has _not_ got
a foreign name. Also he mentions that Purcell wrote a Canaries for his
Opera of Dioclesian, 1690. [See Note on 'Orchesographie.']

The Canary is also alluded to in two other places,