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REIGN OF ELIZABETH.
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The tunes of Cusliion-Dances ( like Barley-Breaks ) have the first part in
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de Luth, intihiU Le Secret des Muses, 4to., Amsterdam, 1615, where it is
called Gaillarde Anglaise. In Nederlandtsche Q-edenck-Glanck, Haerlem, 1626,
the same air is entitled Grallarde Suit Margriet, -(vhich being intended as English,
may be guessed as " Galliard, Sweet Margaret." It is the following : —
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The Galliard (a word meaning brisk, gay ; and used in that sense by Chaucer)
is described by Sir John Davis as a swift and wandering dance, with lofty turns
and capriols in the air. Thoinot Arbeau, in his OrchesograpJiie, 1589, says that,
formerly, when the dancer had taken his partner for the galliard, they first placed
themselves at the end of the room, and, after a bow and curtsey, they walked once