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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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May-game, n. [e.m.E. (1549).] = May-play n. —a1651 Calderwood VII. 458.
Manie of the profainner sort … were drawen out upon the sixt of May [1621] to May games in Gilmertoun and Rosseline
