...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 sp'orts...

...ranks to go a maying ; and, says an old writer, ' On Mayday every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the noise of birds praising God in their kind.' Again, take a verse from Herbert — Hark, how the birds...

...London, Stowe, speaks of the universal custom of the people of the city on May-day morning : " to walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kinds." We have abundant materials for a distinct and complete account of the May-day sports...

...and worth, in truth and love.' " IT was the old custom in England for every one to walk on May-day into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and fragrance of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their hearts. So should it...

...London, Stowe, speaks of the universal custom of the people of the city on May-day morning, ' to walk cam'st thou now To murder, murder our solemnity ?...— Dead art thou! — alack ! my child is dead ; An in their kinds.' We have abundant materials for a distinct and complete account of the May-day sports...

...pleasant rites performed by our old English predecessors ; and Stowe mentions how they used to go out honour undergo, While I sit lazy by. Mir. It would become me As well as it does you : and I should in their kind." 26. The Carikage queen. Dido. "The false Trojan" ¡a .tntis. Sec Note 7, Act it , "Tempest."...

...according to Stow — and I am indebted to Mr. Knight for the quotation — " people were wont to go out into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kind." The song, " 0 happy fair," has a simile from nature in it. " More tunable than lark...

...May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and greenwoods ; there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the noise [«'. e. music] of birds, praising God in their kind.' See also Brand's Observations on Popular...

..." 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 third...

...the town to the freshness of a beautiful world ; aud our ancestors, as Stow has described, went out " into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice...sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds praising Qod in their kind." Stubbs, however, in his ' Anatomie of Abuses,' first printed in 1585 — at the...