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58 Chaucer thus alludes to the good and pleasant old custom of going a Maying, in his "Court of Love:"

Spenser makes frequent mention of this fragrant Spring flower, both in his "Faëry Queen," and his poems of this world. The allusion I think most appropriate and beautiful, is this opening dialogue of the fifth "Æglogue," in his "Shepheard's Calender:"—