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Maid Marian
Also 6 mayd(e-, mawd-, -marion, 7 -marrian, -marrion, -morion.
A female personage in the May-game and morris-dance. In the later forms of the story of Robin Hood she appears as the companion of the outlaw, the association having prob. been suggested by the fact that the two were both represented in the May-day pageants.
c1525Barclay Eclog iv. (1570) C vj, Yet would I gladly heare nowe some mery fit Of mayde Marion, or els of Robin hood. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 22 A liuely morisdauns according too the auncient manner, six daunserz, Mawd⁓marion, and the fool. 1589Pasquil's Ret. B iij b, Martin..is the Mayd-marian, trimlie drest vppe in a cast Gowne, and a Kercher. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 129 For Wooman-hood, Maid-marian may be the Deputies wife of the Ward to thee. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 65 Train'd Bands are Pamp'red like unto Maidmarians. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., Morisco, a Boy dressed in a Girles habit, whom they call the Maid Marrian. 1696Phillips, Maid Marrion, or Morion. a1699Temple Of Health & Long Life Wks. 1720 I. 277 A Sett of Morrice Dancers, composed of Ten Men who danced, a Maid Marian, and a Tabor and Pipe. [Misquoted by Johnson, who in consequence explains Maidmarian as ‘a kind of dance’, an error which is copied in later Dicts.] |