text: _" Why so? Is the approaching visitation of the power more strongly felt than the power itself in presence? Chaucer says distinctly the contrary and why with a word lose or obscure or hazard the appropriation of the month entire so conspicuous a tenet in the old poetical mind? And is Eve here taken strictly--the night before May-day like the _Pervigilium Veneris_? Or loosely on the verge of May answerably to 'ayenes May' afterwards? To the former sense we might be inclined to propose on the contrary part "But sheds his might most on the morrow of May " _i