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Queen of the May

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A village lass chosen to preside over the parish sports on May Day. Tennyson has a poem on the subject.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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