...Survey of London, that on May morning " every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meddowes and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kinde." He subsequently adds " I find also that in the month of May, the citizens of London...

...which it once enjoyed as a denizen of the woods. Its height does not often exceed 20 feet ; but hi a deep and fertile soil, and in sheltered situations,...of hawthorn, birch, and other trees, garlanded with co8 From two species of maple, large quantities of sugar are procured in North America. It is said...

...instruments. The sap of the maple contains a certain quantity of saccharine matter.8 The HAWTHORN9 is often merely a large bush, which, while young,...of hawthorn, birch, and other trees, garlanded with co8 From two species of maple, large quantities of sugar are procured in North America. It is said...

...— ' 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 ! ' All through the history we note the same holy feeling, not thrust in, but the spontaneous...

...effort against blights and chills that they went out, as old Stow tells us, on that memorable morning, "into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kind." I then understood, while the blue vault was scarcely speckled with a cloud, and the...

...May Day, in the morning, ; every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet me.ulows and gm-n woods, there to rejoice their spirits with < the beauty and savour of sweet nowerw, and, with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind." " Going-a-Maying" = is ц very...

...us, ' on May-day, in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet moddowes and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with...the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harrnony of birds praising God in their kiude.' Traces of such ancient customs still remain, especially...

...Catharine, accompanied by many lords and ladies f But every man, according to old John Stowc, would " walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kind." As the birds in their way, so the poets in theirs. They, too, have poured forth their...

...hope that I some grene here getten may/' — Stowe informs us how our ancestors were wont to go out into " the sweet meadows and green woods, there to...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kind." But Stubbs, the atrabilious Puritan, in his Anatomic of Abuses, speaks very differently...

...London, Stowe, speaks of the universal custom of the people of the city on May-day morning, ' to walk in their kinds.' We have abundant materials for a distinct and complete account of the May-day sports...