| 3: Tenn Pounde | |
| longways (?), the more the merrier | |
| mms pages 5 and 6 | |
| Playford version: from 4th edition to 16th edition. | |
| Music: | Track 2 (4th in the medley) of The Food of Love by various artists - the tune seems to be AAB, where A=8 beats and B=16 beats. How that works with what is below I do not know. |
| Part 1 | |
| Verse 1, Part A | |
| 1: | Lead up [a double] |
| 2: | [Fall back a double] |
| Verse 1, Part B | |
| 1: | Lead up [a double] |
| 2: | [Fall back a double] |
| Chorus 1 | |
| "Fall down presently into the middle of all the rest, with your lady hand in hand" - so, first couple leads the others down the middle of the set? But how far? | |
| "and then round softly (or as you please) hand in hand" - perhaps everyone circles slowly/softly (or maybe faster/harder)? | |
| "and then they" - here the instructions vanish, cut off abruptly. | |
| 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 | |
| "and the same agayne" - so the chorus does not change. But what comprises the full chorus? | |
| Part 3 | |
| Verse 3, Chorus 3 | |
| "And soe the 3d time" - but repeat what? | |
| "and if you please each doe his part" - which seems to be more of an informal ending phrase, rather than an instruction for continuing the dance. | |
| Comparison to the Playford version (version 1, 4th to 16th editions) | |
| Version 1 of Ten Pound Lass is a longways for 8 with the last two couples improper. This is a "for as many as will" dance, and I'm not even sure that it isn't a huge circle dance, rather than a line dance. | |
| None of the choreography matches at all, not verse nor chorus (or at least what we know of the chorus). | |
| I can't say that this is a match to Version 1 of Ten Pound Lass. | |
| Comparison to the Playford version (version 2, 17th and 18th editions) | |
| Version 2 of Ten Pound Lass is a for as many as will virus-progressive with only one figure, but this figure involves 2 couples at a time going through each other in just about every permutation possible. | |
| As such, it doesn't seem as if it matches this dance (as much as we know of it), so I wouldn't say that these are the same dance either. | |
| Conclusion: | |
| There seems to be something wrong in the manuscript. Page 5, which contains the beginning of the dance, has a large blank space at the end, which is unusual. The last bit of the last sentence is obscured, but | |
| the phrase "they the(n?)" implies something more to come. However, page 6 begins with a section marker, not the continuation of the sentence. The dance instructions are therefore incomplete. | |
| However, this dance doesn't seem to be any kind of match to "Ten Pound Lass" of any version from Playford. It seems to be a totally different dance entirely. | |