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Across the centuries, they have been stitched into our Britishness as the stuff of folklore, poetry, song – from Robert Herrick's account of Corinna going a-Maying to the belief that eating primroses would allow a person to see fairies, via Shakespeare's talk in Hamlet of "A violet in the youth of primy nature,/ Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,/ The perfume and suppliance of a minute."
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With resolution, she got her sprig of rosemary, broke it, and made the proper incantation, then got a basket and went a-Maying.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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And so upon the morn they took their horses with the queen, and rode a-Maying in woods and meadows as it pleased them, in great joy and delights; for the queen had cast to have been again with King
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How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying with certain knights of the Round Table and clad all in green.
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SO it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride a-Maying into woods and fields beside Westminster.
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How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying with certain knights of the Round Table and clad all in green.
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As if he had gone a-Maying, Cecil thought bitterly.
The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996
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As if he had gone a-Maying, Cecil thought bitterly.
The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996
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This night, and locks pick'd, yet we're not a-Maying.
The Annotated "Corrina" Robert Hunter 1992
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-- June, with her light, green robe, and violet-slippered feet, and sweet, warm breath, and rose-garlanded hair? ah, June is the month to go a-Maying!
Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern
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