Note 193 — SCENE II.

First Courtier dances a galliard] The stage-direction in old ed. is “A Gailliard Laminiard.”—“A galliard is described by Sir John Davis as a swift and wandering dance, with lofty turns and capriols in the air; and so very proper to prove the strength and activity of Lysander. It is still more graphically described, as Mr. Gilchrist observes, in Burton’s Anat. of Melancholy: ‘Let them take their pleasures, young men and maides flourishing in their age, fair and lovely to behold, well attired and of comely carriage, dancing a Greeke Galliarde, and, as their dance required, kept their time, now turning, now tracing, now apart, now altogether, now a curtesie, then a caper, &c., that it was a pleasant sight.’ Fol. 1632.”—Gifford.