 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall Poll, which is called a May Poll ; 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 of Queen Elizabeth's... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1801 - 474 pages
...part of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May-pole ; and being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...being offered to it in the whole circle of the year." This custom, no doubt, is a relic of one more ancient, practised by the Heathens, who observed the... | |
 | 1904 - 592 pages
...after-part 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 there, as it were, consecrated to the goddess of flmvcrs, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year. One of our own... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - 1905 - 354 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall poll, which is called a May poll ; which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year." The author of "The Way to Things by Words," &c., very... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1910 - 394 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... | |
 | 1895 - 1124 pages
...part of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole which is called a May Pole ; and, being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...were consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without any violation being offered to it the whole circle of the year. It has to be sadly confessed that some... | |
 | 196 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 678 pages
...up bonfires. This Maypole was generally placed in some convenient part of every village, and stood, as it were, consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year. Mayday is also, in London, the Chimney-sweepers' Holiday:... | |
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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... 
