MAY 



WI T H a Sweet and lovely Countenance, clad 

 in a robe of White and Green, embroidered with 

 several Flowres, upon his Head a garland of all manner 

 of Roses ; on the one hand a Nightingale, in the other a 

 Lute. His Sign must be Gemini. 



MAY'S ANODYNE 



IT is the week of weeks for the beech- woods. Their 

 brilliantly vivid and fresh greenery makes 

 Green a woodland colour scheme which can have 



Cathedrals no equal until October turns the leaves 

 fox-red, but the freshness will pass before 

 May is out. One must go into the deeps of such great 

 beechen forests as cover the Chilterns to feel the full 

 sense of the vivid colour. Usually beech- woods are 

 credited with brown leaf-carpets, but many of those 

 of the Chilterns are as green underfoot as above with 

 the myriads of year-old seedlings: or are of bluebell 

 ultramarine. The utter silence of some of the green 

 aisles adds a cathedral-like effect. 



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