Nor did the Poet of the World, William Shakespeare, hesitate to

Do observance to a morn of May.

He makes one of his characters (in _King Henry VIII_.) complain that it

is as impossible to keep certain persons quiet on an ordinary day, as it

is to make them sleep on May-day--once the time of universal merriment--

when every one was wont "_to put himself into triumph_."

'Tis as much impossible,

Unless we sweep 'em from the doors with cannons

To scatter 'em, _as 'tis to make 'em sleep

On May-day Morning_.

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