Question

Describe in detail the three dance that Beatrice compares to the acts of wooing, wedding, and repenting.

Answer 1

Beatrice warns Hero, that she should be careful in choosing her husband as wooing, wedding, and repenting are like a scotch jig, a measure, and a quick dance. She further explains that courtship is hot and hasty like a scotch jig and is full of whims and illusions. The wedding is like a dance you would do before the king: Proper and decorous and then the married man beings to repent, and like the pace of a dancer in a quick dance, his repentance increases quickly, and he moves fast towards the grave.