[…] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots.
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Thus every Gibelline hath got his Guelf ;
But Selden he's a Galliard by himself ;
And well may be ; there's more Divines in him ,
Than in all this their Jewish Sanhedrim ;
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I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest.
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He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.
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