[...] OR Vniversal Motion, Being part of that Magnificent Entertainment by the Noble Prince, De la GRANGE, LORD LIEVTENANT of LINCOLNS INN,
Presented to the High and Mighty CHARLES II.
Monarck of Great Brittain, France and Ireland.
On Friday 3 of January 1662.
LONDON Printed 1662.
[...] OR Vniversal Motion, The several Modes of Dancing, according to the Primitive Invention of different Nations, performed in 12 Entries, In the habit of each Countrey▪
I.
A Clownish Carrier with a Packet of Books to be distributed by the Master of the Ceremonies, wherein is described the whole designe: who daunceth a Darbishire Round.
II.
Gives you a Bouree, in the habit of a Thrasonical Gasconian; To let you know, all Frenchmen are not Butterflies.
III.
Presents the variety of Expressions, made by Motions and Actions of the Body only; For which we are indebted to the Quaker, the last Inventor of Ecclesiastical postures, who turnd Informer, is like to be troublesome to our Assembly.
V.
Two other Clownes with their Lasses, (a double pair of Northern Tikes) who dance a Iigge, the first-born of a Scottish Bagpipe.
VI.
Presents you with a Phantastick Saraband, manag'd by a Spaniard, To shew a Phantastick Don can be as ridiculous as the most Antick Mounsieur.
VII.
Throws you in a Drunkard, with steps proper only to that humor: suitable to the Windmil of his Pericranium, which motions we owe to the lightness of a Dutchmans Breeches.
VIII.
Gives you a Country Dance, perform'd by Sheapheards and Sheapherdesses, in the habits of Arcadian Pastorals; who set forth the Innocency of their minds, by the simplicity of their manners.
IX.
Presents a Corant single and figured, and a Saraband serious, both ascrib'd to the Ingenuity, and Bon mene of a well temperd Frenchman.
X.
An entry of Italian Pantaloons; to shew there [Page 5] are Madmen and Fools in every Countrey, even at Rome, Paris, and particularly in London.
XI.
Presents you (the delight of its age) the Canaryes, first invented by the lofty Italian, who generally has more wit than honesty.
XII.
An entry of Swisses, who had rather fight than dance, but loves the Argent better then both.