The tune generally played for the dance was "My love she's but a lassie yet," but the tune of the Prologue has so much of the Morris Dance character that it very possibly served to dance to. The instruments are two fiddle and a small drum; the musicians and Clown are dressed in blue calico jackets with red braid and a pink sash or hem, white calico trousers with red stripe, and a pink cap; the dancers wear pink jackets with blue braid and sash, white tropusers with red stripe, and a blue cap. This was the traditional performance by the old inhabitants of Kirby Malzeard, near Ripon. Mr Bower says; "Taken down by me from old Thomas Wood, of Kirby Malzeard who sings and repeats it. But he will have nothing to do with the present Christmas sword-dancers or "Moowers," who, he says, 'Have never had the full of it, and don't dress properly, nor do it in any form, being but a bad, idle company; but were originally taught by him to make up the numbers at the Ripon Millenary Festival.'"