| Even the Pope must play billiards or trip a coranto now and then! |
| She would dance a coranto, that the French Ambassador, hidden behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master. |
| The passamezzo, passy-measure or half-measure was a popular Elizabethan dance, like the coranto and lavolta. |
| Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? |
| Morley speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto. |
| Then Charles, with ready grace, would begin the coranto, taking a single lady in this dance along the gallery. |
