The Lady of May

Lady of May, The,
a short pastoral entertainment by P. Sidney . It consists of a dispute between a shepherd and a forester for the hand of the rustic May Lady, and was performed under the aegis of the earl of Leicester for Elizabeth I when she visited him at Wanstead in 1578 or 1579 . The character of the pedantic schoolmaster Rombus may have suggested that of Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost .