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shall be very happy to get rid of my ignorance."
"And so shall I," said his squire; "for it seems that in this case knowledge will for once be a cure for hunger, wherewith I am grievously afflicted."
"And why are you so busy, my pretty damsels, weaving these garlands?" said the knight.
"Why, do you not know, sir," said one of the young women, "that to-morrow is Gamwell feast?"
The knight was again obliged, with all humility, to confess his ignorance.
"Oh! sir," said his informant, "then you will have something to see, that I can tell you: for we shall choose a Queen of the May, and we shall crown her with flowers, and place her in a chariot of flowers, and draw it with lines of flowers, and we shall hang all
