The World Turns To Ice
Tuesday 24 May 2011
May-dew
Samuel Pepys tells in his diary (May 1667 entry) that 'After dinner, my wife away down with Jane and W.Hewer to Woolwich, in order to [get] a little ayre, and to lie there tonight, and so to gather May-dew tomorrow morning, which Mrs. Turner hath taught her is the only thing in the world to wash her face with; and I am contented with it.'
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