| The Maid Peeped Out at the Window, or the Frier in the Well | |
| for a line of as many couples as will. | |
| Reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr | |
| The structure of this dance puts limits on just what "as many as will" really is - inverting the line in two doubles means you can't have twenty couples in the line. | |
| Also, the last chorus requires an even number of couples, so keep that in mind as well when setting up to do the dance | |
| Music: | Country Capers, by The New York Renaissance Band |
| English Country Dance Tunes for Dulcimer, Volume 1 by Mark Gilston | |
| Part 1 | |
| Verse 1, Part A | |
| 1: | Go up a double. |
| 2: | Fall back a double. |
| Verse 1, Part B | |
| 1&2: | That again. |
| Chorus 1, Part A | |
| 1&2: | First couple casts off and inverts the line in two doubles, face your partner |
| 3&4: | Set and turn single, left |
| Chorus 1, Part B | |
| 1&2: | First couple casts off and reverts the line in two doubles, face your partner |
| 3&4: | Set and turn single, right |
| Part 2 | |
| Verse 2, Part A | |
| 1&2: | Side left with your partner (double forward to line up right shoulders, double back) |
| Verse 2, Part B | |
| 1&2: | Side right with your partner (double forward to line up left shoulders, double back), face up the hall |
| Chorus 2, Part A | |
| 1: | Everyone go up a double, the men angling/slipping as they do so that they end up in front of their partners in single file |
| 2: | Fall back a double, the men angling/slipping as they do so that they end up on their partners' right side, everyone face their partners |
| 3&4: | Set and turn single, left, then face up again |
| Chorus 2, Part B | |
| 1: | Everyone go up a double, the women angling/slipping as they do so that they end up in front of their partners in single file |
| 2: | Fall back a double, the women angling/slipping as they do so that they end up back on their proper side, everyone face their partners |
| 3&4: | Set and turn single, right |
| Part 3 | |
| Verse 3, Part A | |
| 1&2: | Arm left with your partner (take right arms and walk two doubles around to the left) |
| Verse 3, Part B | |
| 1&2: | Arm right with your partner (take left arms and walk two doubles around to the right) |
| Chorus 3, Part A | |
| 1: | Man 1 takes woman 2 by both hands and "pushes" her back a double from her position, while man 2 does the same with woman 1 (man 2 goes around behind man 1 as he goes for woman 1). |
| Everyone else in the line pairs up and the odds to the same to the evens - all pushing at once. | |
| 2: | Man 1 pulls woman 2 back a double so that he ends up in man 2's position and she's in her own, while man 2 does the same with woman 1, and every other pair copies them |
| 3&4: | Set and turn single, left |
| Chorus 3, Part B | |
| 1: | Man 1 takes woman 1 by both hands, man 2 doing the same and going around man 1 to do it, as before; everyone else in the set does it as well |
| 2: | Everyone pulls their partner back in a double so that everyone is where they started the dance |
| 3&4: | Set and turn single, right |