X: 197
T: the Mountebank
T: Longways &c.
%R: reel
B: Daniel Wright "Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances" 1740 p.99
S: http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/dancebooks.cgi
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Repeats modified to match the "Each strain twice" instruction.
N: Bar 4 has only a single beam on the first 4 notes; fixed.
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
K: A
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|:\
edcB c2A2 | e2 a4 gf | edcB AGAB | cdef B4 |\
edcB c2A2 | e2 a4 ga | bagf agfe | ^defd e4 :|
|:\
BAGF G2E2 | B2 e4 dc | dcBA BAGF | ^EFGA F4 |\
dcBA G2B2 | e2c2 f2fg | agfe dcBA | GABG A4 :|
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%%center Each strain twice.
%%begintext align
%% The 1st Cu. take hands and go thro' the 2d, and sett
%% to the 3d Cu. then turn about to the 2d Cu. and all
%% four take hands abreast, lead up and the 1st Cu.
%% cast off .| then 2d Cu. do the same with the 3d &
%% 1st Cu. :| then the 1st Cu. Figure thro' the 2d Cu.
%% and all four take hands and turn quite round .|
%% Then 1st Cu. cross quite round the 2d Cu. and
%% clap hands, then cast off into the 2d Cu. Place :|
%%endtext
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