| The Health | |
| for a line of four numbered couples. | |
| Reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr. | |
| Music: | St Cecilia Volume 1 by the Companions of St Cecilia |
| Part 1 | |
| Verse 1, Part A | |
| 1: | Lead up a double. |
| 2: | Fall back a double. |
| 3: | Set left (step left, close, step right, close). |
| Verse 1, Part B | |
| 1: | Lead up a double. |
| 2: | Fall back a double. |
| 3: | Set right (step right, close, step left, close). |
| Chorus 1, Part A | |
| 1: | Couples one and four meet, couples two and three stepping back a double to leave room. |
| 2: | Couples one and four turn back to back (toward your partner). |
| 3&4: | Couples one and four "cast" off and go around where the person from the middle couples on your side was standing, that person following; return to normal place. |
| Ex: man 1 casts and goes around where man 2 was, who is following him as they both circle to place. | |
| Chorus 1, Part B | |
| 1: | Couples two and three meet. |
| 2: | Couples two and three turn back to back. |
| 3&4: | Couples two and three "cast" and go outside of couples one and four, leading their person around and back to place. |
| Part 2 | |
| Verse 2, Part A | |
| 1&2: | Everyone take hands backwards and circle half way around to the right. |
| 3: | Set left. |
| Verse 2, Part B | |
| 1&2: | Everyone take hands backwards and circle left to place. |
| 3: | Set right. |
| Chorus 2, Part A | |
| 1: | Couples one and four meet, couples two and three stepping back a double to leave room. |
| 2: | Couples one and four turn back to back (toward your partner). |
| 3&4: | Take hands in a backwards circle and go all the way around, returning to place at the end. |
| Chorus 2, Part B | |
| 1: | Couples two and three meet. |
| 2: | Couples two and three turn back to back. |
| 3&4: | Take hands in a backwards circle and go all the way around, returning to place at the end. |
| Part 3 | |
| Verse 3, Part A | |
| 1: | Change places with your partner by both hands. |
| 2: | Man 1 and man 2, woman 1 and woman 2, man 3 and man 4, woman 3 and woman 4, all change places at the same time (by both hands, I suppose). |
| 3: | Set left. |
| Verse 3, Part B | |
| 1: | Change places with your partner by both hands. |
| 2: | Men 1 and 2, women 1 and 2, men 3 and 4, women 3 and 4 change places. |
| 3: | Set right. |
| Chorus 3, Part A | |
| 1: | Couples one and four meet, couples two and three stepping back a double to leave room. |
| 2: | Couples one and four clap hands (maybe once with self and once with opposite). |
| 3&4: | Couples one and four give right hands across and go all the way around and back to places. |
| or | (Playford supplies this alternate version) |
| 1: | Man 1 and woman 4 meet and give right hands. |
| 2: | Woman 1 and man 4 meet and give right hands. |
| 3&4: | All go around and back to place. |
| Chorus 3, Part B | |
| 1: | Couples two and three meet. |
| 2: | Couples two and three clap hands. |
| 3&4: | Couples two and three give right hands across and go all the way around and back to places. |
| or | the above alternate. |