The Pavan
2 singles and a double forward. 2 singles side, reprise[1] back.
Turkeylone Le Basse
A double forward, reprise back 4 times, 2 singles side, a double forward, reprise back twice.
My Lord of Essex Measures
A double forward, 1 single back 4 times, 2 singles side a double forward reprise back.
Tinternell
A double forward reprise back 3 times, 2 singles, a double round both ways.
Lorraine Almain
A double forward hop 4 times, a double forward, reprise back, a double forward, cast off[2] a double round twice, a double forward hop 8 times, a double forward reprise back, a double forward, cast off a double round twice.
The Old Almain
2 singles, a double round both ways, a double forward, hop 4 times.
Brownswycke
A double forward, reprise back twice, a double forward, hop 4 times.
The Queen’s Almain
2 singles forward, cast off a double round, 2 singles side, reprise back twice, a double forward, hop 4 times.
The New Almain
A double forward, hop 4 times, 2 singles side, a double round twice, honour, 1 single side 1 after another, a double into your fellow’s place, 1 single 1 after another, a double back into your own place again.
The Long Pavan
2 singles, a double forward, 2 singles side, reprise back once. 2 singles side, a double forward, reprise back twice, 2 singles, a double forward, 1 single back twice, 2 singles, a double forward, 2 singles side, reprise back once, 2 singles side, a double forward, reprise back twice.
Cecilia[3] Almain
2 singles, a double forward, 1 single side twice, 2 singles back, honour, 2 singles, a double forward into each other’s place, honour and embrace, 2 singles back, honour, 2 singles, a double into your own place, honour and embrace.
The New Cecilia Almain
A double forward, hop 4 times, 2 singles back, 2 singles forward, 2, a double forward, a double back twice, 2 singles forward, a double round 1 after another, take hands, a double into each other’s place, advance forward 3 times, a double round into your own place again, advance back 3 times, 2 singles forward, 2 singles back.
Cecilia Pavan
1 single, a double forward once, 2 singles, a double forward, reprise back 6 twice, 2 singles, a double forward, reprise back twice, 1 single, a double forward once, 2 singles, a double for reprise back 6 twice.
Spanish[4] Coranto
4 singles side, 2 singles, a double forward, 2 singles side, reprise back twice, 4 singles side, a double forward, reprise back twice, 4 singles side, a double forward, reprise back twice, 2 singles side, 3 travers forward, 2 singles side, 3 travers back, a double forward, reprise back twice, 2 singles side, 3 travers forward, 2 singles side, 3 travers back, a double forward, reprise back twice. A double round both ways, 1 single back and honour, a double into each other’s place and let the women lead a double forward, reprise back twice a double round both ways, 1 single back and honour a double into your own place[5] A double forward, reprise back twice, 1 single back and honour, a double forward, reprise back twice, 1 single back and honour, part, 4 double to and from between your women and when you be all past them then come side long to them with 3 travers and honour every man to his woman. A double straight forward, 3 doubles to and from, then come to your women with 3 travers side, honour every man to his woman, then let the women lead a double forward, reprise back twice, 1 single back and honour. Ut[6]
The Nine Muses
A double forward, 1 single back all 9 together, then the first 3 pass forward with 4 singles and a double and 2 turn back to their company and so the next, etc. and then the last 2 honour to the middle and embrace and the middle 2 turn to the first and honour and embrace. Then 1 of every 3 to pass round about the middle into his own place and so the others with a soft pace and then so after with a galliard pace.
[1] Variously spelt as reprise, reprinse or reprince, it is “[a] step in which the front foot is drawn back to meet the other, used esp. in the ‘basse dance’ of the 15th and early 16th centuries; (also) the use of this step” (OED, n. 3). In other words, as Kent stated (1993, 27), a reprise is “a double taken backwards”.⇑
[2] According to Randle Holme, “[c]ast off is for men and women to loose hands, and stand off one another each facing his partner; or to cast off from the leading, to the lower part or last” (The Academy of Armory and Blazon, ch. 3, 1688, available at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A44230.0001.001?view=toc).⇑
[3] The name of this dance is spelt differently in the 8 MSS (see diplomatic and semidiplomatic editions with original spelling). In order to facilitate computational lexical analyses, it has been decided to modernise and homogenise its spelling as “Cecilia”.⇑
[4] “Dyspayne” in the original MS, meaning “of Spain”, probably from French “d’Espagne”, Spanish “de España” or Italian “di Spagna”.⇑
[5] As Wilson (1986/7, 5) highlighted, the hand is “possibly a sign to repeat everything so far”.⇑
[6] Since this word is followed by a second hand indicating the exact point where dancers should start repeating the sequence of steps introduced by the first hand symbol, I agree with Wilson (1986/7, 5) that reads vt as “an abbreviated instruction to go back to the previous symbol and repeat, in effect ut supra (‘as above’)”.⇑