He Stole My Tender Heart Away

Thompson writes:

The 1^st. Gent: turn the 2^d. Lady The 1^st. Lady turn the 2^d. Gent: lead down two Cu: and up again cross over and hand 4 round at bottom lead out Sides

Colin Hume gives up on this dance because the figures don't match the music. The figures seem to assume 4 bars for the A part and 16 bars for the B, but the music gives 8 bars for the A and 24 for the B. I'm going to assume that the figures were designed for different music than that provided and go on and interpret them anyway.

The only new figure in this dance is "lead out sides". Colin discusses this for another dance. He comes to about the same conclusions I do, it's the same figure as the last in Prince William, except here the dancers need to do a little fudging to get into position.

Another reason for giving up on it is that it is, again, all about the 1s. The 2s turn corners, and move up. The 3s circle. Other than that their lives are uninteresting.

Note that when you have two adjacent sets of three doing lead out sides things get very cramped between the two sets as two people try to fit themselves into that space. In the 19th century they solved this problem by having a neutral couple between every triple minor subset (effectively making the dances quadruple minors where the 4s do nothing), but I don't know if this had evolved by 1778.

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

The dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
An online description of the dance may be found here.

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A1	1-4	M1+W2 two hand turn
A2	1-4	W1+M2 two hand turn
B1	1-8	1s lead down, turn alone, and lead back to top
	9-12	1s cross, go below, as 2s wait and lead up
	13-16	Bottom two couples circle left four
B2	1-16	Lead out sides and turn