 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pagine
...These lines upon St. Swithin's Day are still common in many parts of the country : " St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." There is an old saying, that when... | |
 | 1911 - 588 pagine
...BAILEY KEMPLTNO. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. — The common adage regarding St. S within is : — St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithin's Day, if thpu be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae niair. Many persons still watch the... | |
 | John Brand - 1853 - 580 pagine
...These lines upon St. Swithin's Day are still common in many parts of the country : " St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." 1 A pleasant writer in the World,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 478 pagine
...FORTY DAYS AFTER. " St. Swithin's day, if then dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." In Brand's Popular Antiquities there is a statement to the following purport : — In the year 865,... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1853 - 474 pagine
...whistle ! " IF IT RAINS ON ST. SWITHIN'S DAT, THERE WILL BE RAIN FOB FORTY DAYS AFTER. " St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Switnin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." In Brand's Popular Antiquities... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pagine
...drain, And wash the pavements with incessant rain." There is also an old proverb : " St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's Day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." There is a quaint saying, that... | |
 | Mrs. Thomas Geldart - 1860 - 292 pagine
...used : — " Saint Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : Saint Swithin's day if thou be fair For forty days 'twill rain na mair." |iftlf. The Story of a Book— Illuminated Manuscripts— Early troubles of the new made King— Story... | |
 | John Earle - 1861 - 146 pagine
...mind, Nor Paul nor Swithin rule the clouds and wind." From Brand's Popular Antiquities. " St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 't will rain na mair." Note. — The reader who desires... | |
 | 1861 - 336 pagine
...Cathedral was delayed by forty days of incessant rain, hence the popular superstition that " St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 't will rain na niair." Bo Gay sings, in his Trivia:—... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 360 pagine
...speculative day in the year is St. Swithin's fay, July 15. The old weather proverb runs : " St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." The legend runs, that Swithin,... | |
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ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair. 
