cinque-pace

"It has been taking the cinque-pace, I should say from your long face to-day."

Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason

For hear me, Hero; wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a _Scotch jig_, a _measure_, and a _cinque-pace_: the first suit is _hot and hasty_, like

Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900

I would give value to behold the execution of a coranto and inspect the steps of a cinque-pace, having assurance that the performances assuming these names were veritably identical with their memorable originals.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

_mannerly modest_, as a _measure_, full of _state and ancientry_; and then comes repentance, and with his bad legs falls into the _cinque-pace faster and faster_ till he sink into his grave.

Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900

a Scotch jig, a measure and a cinque-pace; the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding mannerly-modest, as a measure full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance, and with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sinks into his grave.

History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873