Who can doubt after that? The polka was certainly danced before Queen Elizabeth!
To this valuable historical parallel I may add that the galliard and coranto also were apparently danced ad libitum (observing only a particular measure), just as our waltz and galop also are:
"For more diverse and more pleasing show,
A swift, a wandering dance, he [Love] did invent,
With passages uncertain to and fro,
Yet with a certain answer and consent,
To the quick music of the instrument."
B. R. I.