Can you analyze and comment this little piece of text extracted from “New English Canaan” by Thomas Morton?
“They had a poem un readiness made, which was fixed to the Maypole, to show the new name confirme upon that plantation, which, although it were made according to the occurrence of the time, it being enigmatically composed, puzzled the Separatists most pitifully to expound it. The setting up of thy Maypole was a lamentable spectacle to the precise Separatists that lived at New Plymouth.”
It belongs to The Third Book. The Incident at Merry Mount. Chapter XIV. Of the Revels of New Canaan.
What is going on in this fragment? What does it mean and suppose in the context it happened? Can you comment this piece of text? And comment on the text focusing on the paragraph, on what the text means so you can make paralelism?
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