| 23: Harts ease | |
| for only 4 in a square, facing | |
| mms pages 46 and 47 | |
| Playford version: from 1st edition to 8th edition. | |
| Music: | many |
| Part 1 | |
| Verse 1, Part A | |
| 1: | Lead forward [a double] |
| 2: | Fall back [a double] |
| Verse 1, Part B | |
| 1: | Lead forward [a double] |
| 2: | Fall back [a double] |
| Chorus 1, Part A | |
| 1: | Fall back [a double] |
| 2: | Come forwards again [a double] |
| 3-4: | Turn your partner all the way around |
| Chorus 1, Part B | |
| 1: | Fall back [a double] |
| 2: | Come forwards again [a double] |
| 3-4: | Turn your opposite all the way around |
| Part 2 | |
| Verse 2, Part A | |
| 1-2: | Side [left to line up right shoulders] |
| Verse 2, Part B | |
| 1-2: | Side [right to line up left shoulders] |
| Chorus 2, Part A | |
| 1: | Fall back [a double] |
| 2: | Come forwards again [a double] |
| 3-4: | Turn your opposite all the way around |
| Chorus 2, Part B | |
| 1: | Fall back [a double] |
| 2: | Come forwards again [a double] |
| 3-4: | Turn your partner all the way around |
| Part 3 | |
| Verse 3, Part A | |
| 1-2: | Arm [left (right arms, walk left)] |
| Verse 3, Part B | |
| 1-2: | Arm [right (left arms, walk right)] |
| Chorus 3, Part A | |
| 1: | Fall back [a double] |
| 2: | Come forwards again [a double] |
| 3-4: | Turn your partner all the way around |
| Chorus 3, Part B | |
| 1: | Fall back [a double] |
| 2: | Come forwards again [a double] |
| 3-4: | Turn your opposite all the way around |
| Comparison to the Playford version (1st to 8th editions) | |
| Again, a simpler version of the Playford classic, without the verse changups of siding/arming with your partner, then your opposite (though this move is represented elsewhere in this manuscript), and with the addition of the chorus switching who gets turned first - another occurrence of this switchup in this mms | |
| Also of note: | |
| The description of the second part in total is quite confusing, and I find it interesting (in a nerdy way) that the 1st edition Playford is similarly confusing, though in the 1st part, not 2nd part. I can, with some creative reading, see how this manuscript's description of part 2 ends up being what I've written above, | |
| but I can also see how it might get interpreted in a vastly different way … | |