galliardo

Updated: May 17, 2025

"Or, may be, it might please your honourableness to turn your goodly eyes upon the clock, and behold whether it be meet time for a decent maid to come home of a feast-day even? By my troth, I would wager thou hadst been to Westminster and hadst danced a galliardo in the Queen's Grace's hall, did I not know that none with 's eyes in 's head should e'er so much as look on thee.

Emily Sarah Holt - For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary