Woo'd and Married and A'

Woo'd & Married & A' Woo'd and Married and A'

In Wilson's A Companion to the Ball Room, 1816, he published "Woo'd & Married & A'". Wilson writes:

SINGLE FIGURE (Each strain repeated)
Swing with right hands (round the 2^d. Cu:) then with left & set contrary corners

OR THUS Set & change sides with 2^d. Cu: set & back again down the middle up again & allemande

DOUBLE FIGURE (Tune played twice thro' with repeats)
Hands 6 quite round & back again promenade 3 Cu: whole poussette set 3 across & set 3 in your places

Wilson's music is a slip-jig with 2 four bar strains. The RSCDS uses the DOUBLE FIGURE so it should be played AABBAABB.

Wilson defines most of his figures in his An Analysis of Country Dancing, 3rd Edition.

1. Hands 6 quite round & back again is defined on page 5 and means what you expect.
2. promenade 3 Cu: is defined on page 18 and means that all three couples take promenade hold and, with the 1s leading, travel in a counter-clockwise elipse around and back to places.
3. whole poussette is defined on page 15 and means: "top two couples join hands with partner, circle, counter-clockwise, one and a half times around the other couple to change places with them."
   Note: this is unlike a normal English Poussette as the couples travel once and a half around each other rather than once. And is quite different from the Scottish Poussette.
4. set 3 across & set 3 in your places is defined on page 21 and means: "L1 moves between the 2s as M1 moves between 3s, then the lines of three across set, then L1 moves back to her place and M1 back to his, and then lines of three on the sides set to each other.

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