Now is the Month of Maying
Format: Longways duple minor.
Dance: Jenny Beer, 1997.  Music: Thomas Morley, 1595.  Meter: 2/2  Key: G
https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~winston/mydances/now_is_the_month_of_maying.pdf

A1: First diagonals set moving forward; turn single back. 
    All change places right shoulder with partner and then dance 
    single file clockwise round the outside of the set to end progressed and proper.

A2: New first diagonals, the same - all home.

B1: Right file (W)  half figure eight through the men -  #1 go first.  
    (The posts move, as in a mirror image back to back).  
     Opposites half poussette anti-clockwise  (#1L backing, #2L fwd)

B2: Left file (Men) half figure eight through the right file - #1 goes first 
    Partners Half poussette anticlockwise  (Ls do the same thing).

First published in CDSS News 147, March/April 1999, page 15.


A nice dance to the well-known madrigal.  Jenny is now back in Philadelphia, though for several years she lived in California.  People have real
trouble finishing A1 on their proper side, so a demonstration might be in order.  Jenny wrote it as above, but she finds that in B2 the second man
wants to lead the half figure eight (even though at this point he is moving backwards and the first man is moving forwards) so she says you may find
it easier to let him do so.