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NUTS IN MAY |
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birch and branches of trees to deck their assemblies withall . . . and then they fall to daunce about it like as the heathen people did. ... I have heard it credibly reported (and that viva voce) by men of great grauitie and reputation, that of fortie, threescore or a hundred maides going to the wood ouer night, there haue scaresly the third part of them returned home againe undefiled." Herrick's Hesperides also describes the festival, and the custom of courting and marriage at the same time.
The tune sung to this game appears to be the same in every version. |
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