IVY

IVY. May be the same as Ive, or a derivative of it ; but there was a favourite character in the old Christmas games called Ivy, whose antagonist was Holly ; and the frolics of the if'%-i?fly and the Ivy- Girl were maintained in Kent (but on St. Valentine's day) till towards the close of the eighteenth cent. Gent. Mag. 1779. Seethe song of the " Holly and Ivy" quoted in Hone's Mysteries, p. 94, where Ivy is made to be of the feminine gender :

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