From Malory– “How True Love is Likened to Summer”

From Thomas Malory’s Le Mort d’Arthur, chapter 25.

AND thus it passed on from Candlemass until after Easter, that the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in like wise every lusty heart [...]