[Sca-cooks] sops

[tom.vincent at yahoo.com]

No problem.  I've been an English Country Dancer for over a dozen years.
 
Very briefly, here's a great book showing, among other dances,
 
Dick's Maggot 
Draper's Maggot 
Jack's Maggot 
Miss Sparks's Maggot 
Mr. Beveridge's Maggot 
Mr. Isaac's Maggot (one of my favorite dances)
The Round to the tune of Mr. Lane's Maggot 
Up with Aily to the tune of The Hare's Maggot 

http://www.colonialmusic.org/PB-bk.htm
 
You can also find dances with 'maggot' in the title at http://www.dancilla.com/search.asp?LANGU=EN
 
One of my all-time favorite dance names:  "Lady Pentweazle's Maggot"
 
We're talking 1695, 1699 for some of these dances.
 
I don't think Shakespeare's 'maggot' means what you think it means. :)
 
 
Duriel

 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Gedney <gedney1 at iconn.net>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, June 5, 2006 5:20:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] sops


Not to say I dont believe you, but....
Can you give a citation please?

(because in the 16th it clearly meant insect Larva:
A quick check of Shakespeare yeilded this from 
Loves Labour Lost:
Biron: Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, 
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, 
Figures pedantical; these summer-flies 
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: 
I do forswear them; and I here protest, 

According to my American Heritage Dictionary, here 
on my desk, MAGGOT is MIDDLE ENGLISH in origin, 
which predates your 18th century usage by some 400 
years at least.

SO, Please tell me whence you have derived this 
assertion.


Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing
                 
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