 | 1804 - 452 pages
...AND CUSTOMS. [Continued from Page 306.] Ox the calends, or the 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 woods, accompanied with music; where they broke down branches from the... | |
 | Horse racing - 1809 - 420 pages
...ANCIENT MAY-DAY SPORTS AND PASTIMES. i~)N the calends, or the first of May, commonly called MayDay, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring woods, accompanied with music ; where they broke down branches from the... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...The Original of it ; the Unlawfulness. the Calends, or the Jirst Day o/'May, commonly called May-Day, the juvenile Part of both Sexes, were wont to rise a little after Mid-night, and walk to some neighbouring Wood, accompany'd with Musick and the blowing of Horns ; where they break... | |
 | John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...The Original of it ; the Unlawfulness. the Calends, or the Jirst Day o/May, commonly called May-Day, the juvenile Part of both Sexes, were wont to rise a lit.tle after Mid-night, and walk to some neighbouring Wood, accompany'd with Musick and the blowing of Horns ; where they break... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...is high, I cannot attain unto it. Origin of May-Day. 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 j where they break... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pages
...he both novel and entertaining. P. 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 mid-night, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompany'd with musick and the blowing of horns; where they break... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...anciently, for all ranks of people to go out a Maying early on the first of May. In the north of England, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight of the morning of that day, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing... | |
 | 1822 - 430 pages
...their Heathenish vanities, says — "On the calends, or the first day of May, commonly called Mayday, 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 broke... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 442 pages
...Heathenish vanities, says — "On the calends, or the first •day of May, «ommonly called Mayday, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walkte some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns ; where they broke... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...in London" in his time. Bourne tells ns, that in his time, in the villages in the north of England, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight on the morning of the first of May, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with musick and the blowing of horns,... | |
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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... 
