Good Morrow, Valentine

In many parts of Hertfordshire the poorer children gathered on Valentine’s morning and went together to the house of the chief person of the place, who threw wreaths and true lovers’ knots to them from a window. The girls chose one of the youngest, usually a boy, dressed him more gaily than the rest and put him at their head. Then they marched in state through the town or village, singing their rhyme under every window and collecting pennies.