and swift corantos."

[831] "Illustrations of Shakespeare," p. 301; see Nares's
"Glossary," vol. ii. p. 498.

Again, in "Troilus and Cressida" (iv. 4), Troilus says:

"I cannot sing,
Nor heel the high lavolt."

_Light o' Love._ This was an old dance tune, and was a proverbial
expression for levity, especially in love matters.[832] In "Much Ado
About Nothing" (iii. 4), Margaret says: "Clap's into 'Light o' love;'
that goes without a burden; do you sing it, and I'll dance it;" to which
Beatrice answers: "Yea, light o' love, with your heels."

[832] Nares's "Glossary," vol. ii. p. 510.

In "Two Gentlemen of Verona" (i. 2), it is alluded to:

"_Julia._ Best sing it to the tune of 'Light o' love.'

_Lucetta._ It is too heavy for so light a tune."

In the "Two Noble Kinsmen" (v. 2), we read:

"He'll dance the morris twenty mile an hour.
And gallops to the tune of 'Light o' love.'"

And in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Chances" (i. 3), Frederic says: "Sure he
has encounter'd some light-o'-love or other."

_Pavan._ This was a grave and majestic dance, in which the gentlemen
wore their caps, swords, and mantles, and the ladies their long robes
and trains. The dancers stepped round the room and then crossed in the
middle, trailing their garments on the ground, "the motion whereof,"
says Sir J. Hawkins, "resembled that of a peacock's tail." It is alluded
to in "Twelfth Night" (v. 1) by Sir Toby: "A passy-measures pavin,"
although the reading of this passage is uncertain, the editors of the
"Globe" edition substituting _panyn_.

It has been conjectured that the "passy-measure galliard," and the
"passy-measure pavan" were only two different measures of the same
dance, from the Italian _passamezzo_.[833]

[833] See Dyce, vol. iii. p. 412, _note_ 121.

_Roundel._ This was also called the "round," a dance of a circular kind,
and is probably referred to by Titania in "A Midsummer-Night's Dream"
(ii. 2), where she says to her train:[834]

"Come now, a roundel and a fairy song."

[834] Roundel also meant a song. Mr. Dyce considers the dance
is here meant.

Ben Jonson, in the "Tale of a Tub,"[835] seems to call the rings, which
such fairy dances are supposed to make, _roundels_.

"I'll have no roundels, I, in the queen's paths."

[835] See Singer's "Shakespeare," vol. ii. p. 333.

_Satyrs' Dance._ A dance of satyrs was a not uncommon entertai