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Sellenger's round Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 6 Sellengars, 6–7 Sellingers, 7 Selingers, Sal(l)enger(s, Salinger's, Sallingers.
[Sellenger represents the pronunciation of the surname St. Leger; cf. Sellinger as the popular name of the race called St. Leger (saint n. 3 c). See conjectures in quot. 1855.]
An old country dance; also, the music for this dance.
1567Pikeryng Horestes 305 (Brandl), Entrithe and singeth this song to y⊇ tune of ‘haue ouer y⊇ water to floride’ or ‘selengers round’. 1593‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus' Bountie C 3 b, The fidler he fidled, and the pots danced for ioy the old hop about, commonly called Sellengars round. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. iii. 119. 1604 Middleton Ant & Night. D 4, Dauncing of Sallingers-round in Moone-shine nights about May Poles. 1607,c1645[see round n.1 11 c]. a1683Oldham Wks. (1686) 55 Fairies dancing Salenger a Nights. 1698[see round n.1 11 c]. 1855W. Chappell Pop. Mus. I. 69 Sellenger's Round, or The Beginning of the World. Ibid. 70 This tune..is to be found in Queen Elizabeth's and Lady Neville's Virginal Books,..&c... It might be from ‘Sir Thomas Sellynger’, who was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, before the year 1475..; or from Sir Antony St. Leger,..Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1540. |