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 the Fox, Hay, Put on Your Smock a' Monday, and Sellinger's Round.

It is hardly necessary to do more than to enumerate the most characteristic dances of the time. Antic was generally applied to any kind of grotesque dancing, made so either by boisterous behaviour or monstrous masquerade. The brawl was a wild sort of dance that seems, from the following couplet, to have been a rough imitation of a battle:

A special form of this dance, called the French brawl, is thus alluded to in Good Fellows, a ballad published in 1569:

Marston's Malcontent gives the following description of Bianca's brawl, a quotation not inserted wholly on account of its lucidity: "Why, 'tis but two singles on the left, two on the right, three doubles forward, a traverse of six round: do this twice, three singles side, galliard trick of twenty, curranto pace; a figure of eight, three