Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.
Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig
