Note 21 — INTRODUCTORY.
Reading edition
The "Shepheards Calender" recites how, in the month of May,
Youngthes folke now flocken in every where, To gather May-buskets and smelling brere; And home they hasten the postes to dight, And all the kirk-pillours eare day-light, With hawthorn buds, and sweete eglantine, And girlonds of roses, and soppes in wine.
"Sops in wine" are said to be pinks.