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Much Adoe About Nothing (12); Shakespeare
Much Adoe About Nothing Shakespeare - 12 Author:William Shakespeare Volume: 12 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Lippincott Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where ... more »you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: (and full as fantafticall) the wedding manerly modeft, 71 71. manerly modeJ(] mannerly-modest Theob. Tordion Or Galliard (cinquepace). -:Ii J J JU J i fl The next six minims are danced to the Revers, which is just the same, except that the words droictc and gaulche change places all the way down. Then repeat till the tune is finished. [Surely, the curiosity is pardonable which would fain be enlightened as to the exact style of a 'sault majeur' especially since it appears that high-flung capers were the most admired steps of the dance. Witness the description by Orazio Busino, chaplain to the Venetian Ambassador, of a performance before James I, in 1617: 'At last twelve cavaliers in masks, the central figure always being the prince, " chose their partners and danced every kind of dance, . . . and at length being well nigh tired, they began to flag, whereupon the king, who is naturally choleric, got impatient, and shouted aloud, 'Why don't they dance? What did you make me come here for ? Devil take you all! Dance !' On hearing this, the Marquis of Buckingham, his majesty's most favored minion, immediately sprang forward, cutting a score of lofty and very minute [qy. elaborate ?] capers with so much grace and agility, that he not only appeased the ire of his angry sovereign, but, moreover, rendered himself the admiration and delight of everybody. The other masquers, being thus encouraged, continued successively exhibiting their prowess with various ladies, finishing in like manner with capers. . . . The prince, however, excelled them all in bowing, being ver...« less