...they'll come down by the rills. Winter's thunder, and summer's flood, Never boded Englishman good. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight : If on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. If St. Paul's...

...metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin's, Moore's, and other Almanacks, reminds us : — If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. This adage seems,...

...Swithiu, and others : Si sol splendescat Maria purificante Major erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight, But if Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again. Already now the Snowdrop...

...another of these irrational inferences from the weather of one day to that of a distant period : 1 If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight : But if Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again.' A few of these...

...day be bright and cleare, It doih betide a happy yeare," &c. And the other on Candlemas day : — " If Candlemas day be fair and bright. Winter will have another flight : Bat if Candlemas day be cloud! and rain, Winter le gone, and will not come again." We cannot for...

...glacies post festum qtiam ante fuit." Which is popularised in the not uncommon English lines : — " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day brings clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." Candlemas...

...Almanaes did not neglect this day: one of them BOOK thus partly imitates the proverb : — Candlemat " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gonc and will not come again." There is a humorous...

...Almanacs did not neglect this day: one of them BOOK thus partly imitates the proverb : — Caintfrma* " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright • Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clonds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." There is a humorous...

...the Sun shines in on Candlemas day, So far will the snow blow in afore old May." Then again : — " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight : If on Candlemas day, it be shower and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." Agreeing with...

...custome is of great antiquity, and that it is derived from the gentiles." (Aubrey, MS. Lansd. 231.) If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. It is generally the case that fine weather continues if it is mild at Candlemas. A somewhat similar...