[Bg-dance] Confess, or the Court Lady

[Miriam Robinson Gould]

Salaam!

I thought y'all might be interested in seeing how Playford described the
dance.  Because what I found was a .gif of the actual text, I can't copy and
paste it, but the link to see it is here:
http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play0470.htm

It's a little hard to make out, but pretty much everything is legible.  It
does indeed clear up some of the things we were confused by because it
specifies "right hand" and "left hand" or "to the wall."  The 2nd figure
(with the man leading the lady in and all going round) is still, IMHO,
ambiguous and is also the most difficult to read.  I don't think the way it
was reconstructed, with the balance and arch, is a good fit for it, though.

M'salaameh,

Sayidda Tahira bint Ibrahim al-Ishbiliyya
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