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...Stationers’ Register by Moseley on 8 Apr. 1654 as “A comedie called ''The Maidens Holiday'' by Christopher Marlow & John Day” for “vj^d” [htt ...me of reference is pastoral”. For instance, Milton's’’ L'Allegro’’ links maidens and holidays in a pastoral context. Milton imagines a scene

...dnote to the ballad provides the alternate title, “A godly warning for all maidens, by the example of God’s judgment shewed on one Jerman’s wife of Clifto Roxburghe, headnote to the ballad, “A Warning for Maidens; or, Young Bateman,” quotes lines from ''Monsieur Thomas'', by John Fletc

:2^d. p^t. Maidens Trag. Geo. Chapman

...flax. Part 2 of the ballad has a darker tone. Robin talks of slipping into maidens' bedrooms, exposing their nakedness, and taking sexual advantage: "twixt sl

...possets and reare Banquets hast thou beene musted by Prentices and Kitchen-maidens? When the Bell-man for anger to spie (such a Purloyner of Cittizens goods)

...magical herb and pronounced a magic spell (177), and would ravish and eat maidens in the woods, or steal fat little children for food. The werewolf's exploit

Reid, Lindsay Ann. "Impregnable Towers and Pregnable Maidens in Early Modern English Drama", ''Comparative Drama'' 53 (2019): 85-108.