I just take my rugs outside and hang them off the clothesline. But an oriental rug, perhaps there's someplace in Annapolis.
May flowers bring June and kernels, probably referring to "nuts" in old English.
From A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser published in 1557. Tusser is credited with the origination of "April showers bring May flowers", but it's the modern English translation of his old English.
As Ianeuer fryse pot, broth corne kepe hym lowe:
And feuerell fill dyke, doth good with his snowe:
A bushel of Marche dust, worth raunsomes of gold:
And Aprill his stormes, be to good to be tolde:
As May with his flowers, geue ladies their lust:
And Iune after blooming, set carnels so iust:
As Iuly bid all thing, in order to ripe:
And August bid reapers, to take full their gripe.
September his fruit, biddeth gather as fast:
October bid hogges: to come eat vp his mast:
As dirtie Nouember, bid thresh at thine ease:
December bid Christmas to spende what he please:
So wisdom bid kepe, and prouide while we may:
For age crepeth on as the time passeth away.
Finis.
