 Paul's Day be fair and clear. It does betide a happy year; But if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain: If clouds or mists do dark the skie, Great store of birds and beasts shall die; And if the winds do fly aloft, Then wars...  Notes and Queries - Página 651904Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 páginas
...25th.) If St. Paul be fair and clear, T en betides a happy year, If clouds or mists do dark the sky, Great store of birds and beasts shall die ; And if the winds do fly aloft, Then wars shall vex the kingdom oft.—BJ. 46. There is a Latin version from the Harl. MS. in Reliquia, Antiqua; ii. 10.... | |
 | 1894 - 774 páginas
...Thomas Passenger rather shakily translates thus : If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It promises then a happy year ; But if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain ; Or if the wind do blow aloft, Great stirs will vex the world full oft ; And if dark... | |
 | John Brand - 1895 - 602 páginas
...dearth ; and if windy, wars ; as old wives do dream." He gives the verses as follow : — " If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy...beasts shall die ; And if the winds do fly aloft, Then wan shall vex the kingdome oft." He farther informs us, that " Others observe the twelve days of Christmas,... | |
 | 1895 - 284 páginas
...languages have been current throughout Western Europe. One of the English versions runs : " If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear " It does betide a happy...it chance to snow or rain, " Then will be dear all kinds of grain. " If clouds or mists do dark the sky, "Great store of birds and beasts shall die. "... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1910 - 280 páginas
...This finds expression in a rhyme, which is still quoted in some outlying parts of Scotland : If St Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy...if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain ; If clouds or mists do dark the sky, Great store of birds and beasts shall die; And... | |
 | 1897 - 1030 páginas
...extant translations of these lines into French and English. Here is one of the English versions: If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy...Then will be dear all kind of grain ; If clouds or mist do dark the sky, Great store of birds and beasts shall die; And if the winds do fly aloft, Then... | |
 | 1873 - 880 páginas
...St. Paul, according to the old monkish rhvmes, one of the many translations of which runs : If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy...if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain; If clouds or mist do dark the sky, Great store of birds and beasts shall die j And... | |
 | 1898 - 728 páginas
...longest day and shortest night.' — June nth (old style). ' If St. Paul be bright and clear, it doth betide a happy year ; But if it chance to snow or rain, then will be dear all kinds of grain.' MCM MONTHLY PACKET SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MISSIONS. SUBJECT FOR FIRST QUARTER: SOUTH... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 páginas
...betide a happy year ; If blustering winds do blow aloft, Then wars will trouble our realm full oft ; And if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain." Bishop Hall, in his Characters of Virtues and Vices, speaking of the superstitious... | |
 | Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - 1903 - 420 páginas
...it then should raine, Then will make clear all kinds ofgrainc ; And if the clouds make dark the site Great store of birds and beasts shall die ; And if the winds do fly aloft, Then Mars shall -DCK the ling dome oft." — WILESFORD'S "NATURE SECRETS." " North winds send haile, South... | |
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