Note to Hamlet, 1.4.9: "the swaggering up-spring"

"Up-spring" may be an translation into English of Hupfauf, the name of a German dance that involves a lot of hopping and leaping. I believe the image below depicts the sort of thing Hamlet is referring to.







"De bruiloft dans (Detroit)" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526/1530-1569)