On his way home Gabriel congratulated himself on having an adventure which would silence Mrs. Varden on the subject of the Maypole for that night, or there was no faith in woman.

His coat was gathered in at his waist, and was patched with as many colors as there are stripes upon a Maypole in the springtide.

Fly my rhymes as thick as flies in the sun; I think there be never an alehouse in England, not any so base a maypole on a country green, but sets forth some poet's petronels or demi-lances to the paper wars in Paul's Churchyard.

She is more fiery against the maypole than her husband, and thinks she might do a Phineas' act to break the pate of the fiddler.