Note 614 — Chapter VIII · THE MAY-GAME
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Hall, 515, 520, 582; Brewer, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ii. 1504. In 1510, Henry and his courtiers visited the queen’s chamber in the guise of Robin Hood and his men on the inappropriate date of January 18. In Scotland, about the same time, Dunbar wrote a ‘cry’ for a maying with Robin Hood; cf. Texts, s. v. Dunbar.