...every man, except impediment, would walke into the sweet meddowes and green woods, there to rejoyce their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmonic of birds, praising God in their kinde. And for example hereof, Edward Hall hath noted, that...

...both sexes went a-Maying after midnight, accompanied by bands of music. Crowds of them went out of the town, as Stowe says, "into the sweet meadows and green...of hawthorn, birch, and other trees, garlanded with coronals of wild flowers, and bearing large nosegays in their hands, with which they decorated the...

...meddowes and greene woods, (many of these are now covered with long lines of houses) there to rejoyce their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmonie of birdes, praising God in their kinde. And, for example, hereof Edward Hall hath noted, that...

...Old John Stow tells us, that on May-day, in the morning, " every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kind." Henry VIII. rode a-maying from Greenwich to Shooter's hill, with his Queen Katherine,...

...when every man will, as of old, " walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice his spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the noise of birds, praising God in their kind,''* on each May-day; or when London shall again present...

...why In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind ; and for example hereof, Edward Hall hath noted, that King Henry VIII., as in the 3rd...

...SURVEY In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind ; and for example hereof, Edward Hall hath noted, that King Henry VIII., as in the 3rd...

...namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walke into the sweete meddowes and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits, with...savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praysing Hod in their kind;"** and Shakspeare has repeated references to the same observance; in Midsummer...

...every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meddowes and green woods, there to rejoyce their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmonie of birds praising God in their kinde. And for example hereof Edward Hall hath noted that King...

...Honest, kind-hearted, hard-working John Stowe tells us that "EVERYMAN, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kind." Herrick, whose muse sings of many of our national customs, confirms—if such confirmation...