Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 21
y. Every one knows how the prettiestgirl in the village was chosen Queen o the May, andhow all joined in the Whitsun Morris-dance. Long Marston,—Dancing Marston, as it hasbeen called ever since Shaksperes time,— a fewmiles from Stratford, was famous till within thememory of man for a troop of… … A BUNCH OF COWSLIPS. three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that madethemselves all menofhair,and called themselvesSaltiers, at the sheep-shearing feast whichpretty Perdita presided over, in The WintersTale. The sheep-shearing feast, which camewhen roses were out on the hedges and in thegardens, must…
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