MUSIC: Any quaint old-time maypole dance will do for the maypole rout.

A merry stave, a cup of cherry wine, or a maypole dance?

The Maypole dances had been banished, games and laughter were frowned upon.

They had a rehearsal of the Maypole dance and crowning the next day.

Edith was one of the child singers in the Maypole dance, and her mother was a nun.

In the evening they used to have a Maypole dance, while the little queen sat and watched them.

A Maypole dance closes the scene.

Our own maypole dances may be instanced as one survival of the ancient worship of the male generative principle.

The dance was called the Maypole dance, and it had proper steps of its own, just like any other dance.

Earlier writers mention "the scolding violin," and describing the Maypole dance tell of not hearing the "minstrelsie for the fiddling."

I rather think it must have come from Merry Mount, where they held the first Maypole dance and shocked good Cotton Mather.

Festivities of various sorts were held on this early playground, always a May day celebration with its Maypole dance and its May queen.