'Trip and Go' is mentioned both as a dance and a ballad in John Lyly's play The Maydes Metamorphasis (1600), where it states:

"Fay: O you must needs daunce and sing:
Which if you refuse to doo,
We wiill pinch you blacke and blew.
And about we goe.
They all daunce in a Ring, and sing as followeth.

Round about, round about, in a fine Ring a:
Thus we daunce, thus we daunce, and thus we sing a.
Trip and go, too and fro, over this Green a:
All about, in and out, for our brave Queen a.

Round about, round about in a fine Ring a:
Thus we daunce, thus we daunce, and thus we sing a.
Trip and go, too and fro, over this green a:
All about, in and out, for our brave Queene a.

We have daunc't round about, in a fine Ring a:
We have daunc't lustily, and thus we sing a:
All about, in and out, over this Greene a:
Too and fro, trip and go, to our brave Queen a." ⁽¹⁾