If Wednesday, Thursday, or if Friday
Happen this year to be May day,
Then begin some harmless thing
And it will thee much credit bring.
—Randle Holme, Harleian MSS.
LEGENDS
The Celtic legend already alluded to comes from Alderley Edge. It is a version of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
A farmer going through Alderley Edge, on his way to the fair to sell a beautiful white mare, was accosted by a venerable old man dressed as a monk, who said:
“Sell as thou wilt that steed of thine
’Tis fated that the steed be mine.”