| Cupido | |
| a bassadanza for four | |
| Source: AW Smith (6 mms), reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr | |
| Music: Forse che si (4 bar intro - the dance begins when the multiple instruments begin) | |
| Starting position: a column of people, one behind the other, MWMW | |
| Section 1: | |
| 1 | 2 sempi, left and right |
| 2&3 | 2 doppi, left and right; at the end, the men mezavolta to face the women |
| 4&5 | All do 2 riprese, left and right |
| 6 | Riverentia, left |
| Section 2: | |
| 7&8 | The men take right hands with the women and circle, 2 sempi, left and right, and 1 doppio, left |
| 9 | All do a ripresa, right |
| 10&11 | The men do two doppi, left and right |
| as the women do 4 continentie, left, right, left, right | |
| at the end, everyone mezavolta | |
| 12&13 | All do 2 riprese, left and right |
| 14 | Riverentia, left |
| Section 3: | |
| 15 | All approach with 2 sempi, left and right |
| the men should end up next to the women - the men mezavolta to face with the women | |
| 16 | Take hands and ripresa, left |
| 17&18 | Drop hands and volta del gioioso (2 sempi, right and left, and a ripresa right) |
| 19 | Riverentia, left |
| Dance repeats - second time through, the women take the lead parts. As the dance begins, the | |
| men fall in behind the women into the column - or possibly, during the long riverentia, the | |
| men "put" the women before them to reform the column | |