...or be it white : But if it be white, it's the better to like. Februeer doth cut and shear. The hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear. February makes a bridge, and March breaks it. t See also an entertaining...

...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...

...not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection, to the same effect : — " The hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear." Among the atmospherical phenomena, from which the superstitious were...

...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...

...Book, vol. i. col. 12. February is seldom warm.* Never clean your nails on Candlemas-day. The hindf had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas day be pleasant and clear. If Candlemas-day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. If Candlemas-day is fair and clear,...