text:  Hear Master Stubbes in his _Anatomie of Abuses_ published in 1585:-- "Against May Whitsonday or other time all the yung men and maides old men and wives run gadding over the night to the woods groves hils and mountains where they spend all the night in pleasant pastimes and in the morning they return bringing with them birch and branches of trees to deck their assemblies withall; and no meruaile for there is a great Lord present amongst them as superintendent and Lord of their sports namely Sathan prince of hel