There's Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose ~ RSCDS

In his A Companion to the Ball Room, 1816, Thomas Wilson published There's Nae Luck About the House:, wherein he writes:

SINGLE FIGURE (Each strain repeated)
Hands 3 round on the ladies side hands 3 round on the gent: side lead down the middle up again & right & left at top

OR THUS Set & change sides with 2^d. Cu: set & back again lead down the middle up again & hands four round at top

DOUBLE FIGURE (Tune played twice thro' with repeats)
Cast off 2 Cu: & back again swing with right hands top & bottom set contrary corners & the double triangle.

The music consists of 2 four bar strains, both repeated. The RSCDS has picked the third figure (the one marked "DOUBLE FIGURE") which means the music should be played AABBAABB. "" indicates two repetitions of a strain.

Wilson defines his figures in his An Analysis of Country Dancing.

• Cast off 2 Cu: (& back again) is defined on pages 8-9 and means: "active couple cast down, go outside the set, passing two other couples, then turn away from each other to face up, and return to places."
• swing with right hands top and bottom this is defined on pages 87-88: "Partner right turn half, using the momentum to loop round your partner's place, and cast down below the 2s to meet in the middle between them and the 3s, again right turn half casting up on their own sides back to original places.
• set contrary corners may be found on pages 55-57 and means "move to 1st corner and set, pass partner right moving to 2nd corner, set, return to places the easiest way". Wilson does not show the corners setting back.
• the double triangle does not appear until the 3rd edition of the Analysis on page 113 and means: the middle couple loop first corner right shoulder pass outside partner's place, then loop 2nd corner right shoulder and return to place.
  This is completely different from the RSCDS version of double triangles.

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