The melody with dance directions (duple minor longways dance) was first published by Playford in The Dancing Master, 5th edition (1675) through the 18th and final edition of 1728, published at the time by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns. It was also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754. The color green was associated with promiscuity or harlotry, and was the color of lust in the 16th and 17th centuries. However, it cannot have been a universally applied connotation: the Puritans wore green stockings (along with russet and scarlet colored ones).