Gadding has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Against May, Whitsonday, or other time, all the yung men and maides, olde men and wives, ran gadding over night to the woods, groves, hils, and mountains, where they spend all the night in plesant pastimes ; and in the morning they return, bringing with them birch and branches of trees, to deck their assemblies withall. |