What does may-lady mean?

may-lady

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English

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"The jolly Satyres, full of fresh delight, / Came dauncing forth, and with them nimbly ledd / Faire Hellenore with girlonds all bespredd, / Whom their May-lady they had newly made […]."
"Some light huswife belike, that was dressed like a may lady, and as most of our gentlewomen are."

May-ladies (plural)

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