When they got down to the theatre they went at once on to the stage, where Nina found herself in the midst of an old-fashioned English village, with a gayly bedecked maypole just behind her, while in front of her was the great, gaunt, empty, musty-smelling building, filled with a dim twilight, though, also, there were here and there one or two orange-points of gas.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
The characters are as follow:-1, Robin Hood; 2, Maid Marion; 3, Friar Tuck; 4, 6, 7, 10, and 11, Morris-dancers; 5, the hobby-horse; 8, the maypole; 9, the piper; and 12, the fool.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
The maypole festivities have been given up of recent years, but hobby-horses still prance the streets.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton