And then we get renaissance on your brain!

When you say the word aloud, the image you get is probably paintings by those grand old men, many of which depict people who pose with a face we nowdays see in passport pictures.

Also Italy. High arts, low democracy, the quality of wine somewhere in between.

But what about the common people? You know, Bruno the Butcher & Letizia the Laundress? How they were doing? Poverty more than Pavane, I’m sure of that.

How about our song here, is it more the court etiquette or bloody peasant stuff? I’d say, it’s in the middle. Sort of “wearing stockings & going to the pig house to check if the ol’ Buttercream’s wig is free of louse”.

So, MISS PICARDYS JUMP AND RIBBON. The title is a reference of John Dowland’s way of giving weird titles of his tunes.

And hey, it’s recorders all right. A little break from stringed instruments.