Fiercely dashed their horses together, in the nighttime, on the green mead.

He went his way through a green mead, till he stood by a river of clear running water.

Through the green mead her course she takes;

Between the rows of trees stretched level lawns where grazed the happy flocks, and over the green mead were sprinkled flowers of every hue.

But when she got to the bottom she saw far and wide around her a fair green mead, and she hadn't hurt herself at all.

Stray the green meads through

So you may pass from village to village; now crossing green meads, now cornfields, over brooks, past woods, through farmyard and rick 'barken.'

Our way home lay through some flat green meads, crossed by a stream, which, in its turn, was crossed by a little rustic bridge.

"O'er the green mead the sporting virgins play, Their shining veils unbound; along the skies, Tost and retost, the ball incessant flies."