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Examples
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I have often-times assayed, that if a man keep them with a little of the rock and wet them with May-dew oft-sithes, they shall grow every year, and the small will wax great.
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The arrival of a large dish of good cow-heel and bacon something soothed the asperity of the artist, which wholly vanished before a choice capon, so delicately roasted that the lard frothed on it, said Wayland, like May-dew on a lily; and both Gaffer Crane and his good dame became, in his eyes, very painstaking, accommodating, obliging persons.
Kenilworth 2004
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Dousterswivel: "Pray, Mr. Dousterswivel, shall we dig from east to west, or from west to east? or will you assist us with your triangular vial of May-dew, or with your divining-rod of witch-hazel?"
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I find no allusion to these specific applications of "May-dew" in Ellis's _Brand_.
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_ -- Every one has heard of the virtues of "May-dew," but perhaps the complex superstition following may be less generally known.
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May-dew has not lost its virtue; the carrying of fire round houses, fields, and boats are still supposed to drive away witches and evil spirits; and diseases are supposed to be capable of cure by means of charms.
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Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled:
All for Love 1909
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She is said to have further whetted her appetite for horrors by wading, at Fahrwangen, in the blood of sixty-three innocent knights, exclaiming the while, "This day we bathe in May-dew."
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled:
All for Love 1875
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'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled.
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854
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