1. John Playford was the first to write arrangements of the Contredanse in the dance collection English Dancing Master (1651)

2. John Playford was the first to write arrangements of the Contredanse in the dance collection English Dancing Master (1651)

3. MY RELIGION LEO TOLSTOY His Compatriot, Le Fèbvre, had begun to give a few lessons as a dancing-master

4. John Barleycorn, fictional humorous personification of alcohol, first appearing about 1620.John Barleycorn was a figure in British and American folklore.British sources often refer to the character as Sir John Barleycorn, as in a 17th-century pamphlet, The Arraigning and Indicting of Sir John Barleycorn, Knight, and in a ballad found in The English Dancing Master (1651).