NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 54·12.
May 14.
1826. Whitsunday.
This is the annual commemoration of the feast of Pentecost. In the catholic times of England it was usual to dramatise the descent of the Holy Ghost in the churches; and hence we have Barnaby Googe’s rhymes:—
On Whitsunday whyte pigeons tame in strings from heauen flie,
And one that framed is of wood still hangeth in the skie.
Thou seest how they with idols play, and teach the people too;
None otherwise then little gyrles with pvppets vse to do.
Naogeorgus.