Come then, good folks, your plenty share,
O give, my prince! and maiden fair,
Be bountiful to-day.
Sooth, custom bids ye all to throw
Whole handfulls to the begging crow;
At least give something; say not, no,
And we will go our way.
In Rhodes another kind of begging, which usually took place in the month of March, was denominated Chelidonizein;[[377]] or, to sing the
SONG OF THE SWALLOW.
The swallow is come, and with her brings