Wigmores Galliard

A galliard is a fairly rapid dance that shares some vague similarities with the two-step. The music is based on the score in Popular Music of the Olden Time (William Chapell, 1859); this is the first stanza from Delone's contrafact to it.

You parents whose affection fond

Unto your children doth appear

mark well the story now in hand

Wherein you shall great matters hear

And learn by this which shall be told

To hold your children stilli n awe

Least otherwise they prove too bold

And set not by your state a straw.