 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 514 pagina’s
...time, BOOK and as it exists no longer : — " On the calends or first of May, commonly called May day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and blowing of horns, where they break down... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 954 pagina’s
...time, BOOK and as it exists no longer : — " On the calends or first of May, commonly called May day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and blowing of horns, where they break down... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1843 - 914 pagina’s
...accounted somewhat " ungenteel." Bourne tells us that in his time, in the villages of the north of England, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight on the morning of that day, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music andtbeblowingof horns, where they... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pagina’s
...of May : " On the Calends, or the Isl day of May," says Ihc former, " commonly called May-day, Ihc an insulated house, but a village, an inference which is strongly sup and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompany'd with music, and the blowing of horns, where they break... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pagina’s
..." On the Calends, or the 1st day of May," says Ihe former, " commonly called May-day, the juvénile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompany'd with music, and the blowing of horns, where they break... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1846 - 700 pagina’s
...celebrate its erection, as the evening approached. " On the calends of May," says a quaint author, " the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns, where they break... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pagina’s
...first of May. Bourne tells us that in his time, in the villages in the North of England, the iuvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight on the morning of that day, and walk to some ., neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns, where... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pagina’s
...their heathenish vanities, says — " On the calends, or the first day of May, commonly called May-day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns ; where they break... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 422 pagina’s
...when, as Chaucer describes:— " Fourth goeth al the Court both most and lest, To fetch the flouria fresh, and branche and blome." And when not the courtiers...branches of the trees, and adorned them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. This done, they returned home at sunrise, and decked the doors and windows with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pagina’s
...part of the month. "On the Calends, or the first day of May," savs Bourne, "commonly called May-day, { 0 and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompany'd with music, and the blowing of horns, where they break... | |
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... and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns, where they broke down branches from the trees and adorned them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. This done, they returned... 
