 | Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 pages
...which is called ;i IMay Poll; which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands (here, its and defects of this once celebrated author has been given by Ol violence offered il, in the whole circle or the tear."* " An anlient custom," says the latter, " still... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 514 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall poll, which is called a May-poll ; and being M placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...custom was observed by noble and royal personages : in Chaucer's Court of Love, we read that early on May Day, " fourth goth al the court, both most and lest,... | |
 | 1830 - 494 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing around a tall pole, which is called a May-pole ; which, being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered it in the whole circle of the year." One of our own Poets thus mentions the May-pole ceremonies... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...chiefly spent in (lancing round a May-pole, which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stood there, as it were, consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year.'* Spenser, in his Shepherd's Calendar, has detailed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...chiefly spent in dancing round a May-pole, which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stood there, as it were, consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year." Spenser, in his Shepherd's Calendar, has detailed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...chiefly spent in dancing round a May-pole, which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stood there, as it were, consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year." Spenser, in his Shepherd's Calendar, has detailed... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1846 - 700 pages
...other part of the day is spent in dancing round a poll — which is called a May poll, which being placed 'in a convenient part of the village, stands there, as it were, dedicated to the Goddess of Flowers." She had put on her hood and scarf, and followed by her two maidens,... | |
 | John Brand - 1853 - 580 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May Pole ; which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offer' d to it in the •whole circle of the year." Stubbs, a puritanical writer, in his Anatomie of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May-pole ; which, being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the goddess of flowers, without the least violation offered it in the whole circle of the year. And this is not the custom of the British common people... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 832 pages
...of the day ia chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May Pole ; which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands there, as it were, consecrated to the (¡odtless of Plovers, without the least violence offered it, in the whole circle of the year." The... | |
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... crowns of flowers. When this is done they return with their booty homewards, about the rising of the sun, and make their doors and windows to triumph in the flowery spoil. The... 
