 | Percy Society - 1841 - 476 pagine
...in June, Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly. CLXI. 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. CLXII. To make your candles last... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841 - 468 pagine
...in June, Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly. CLXI. 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. CLXII. To make your candles last... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 434 pagine
...in June, Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly. CLXI. 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 n,i mair. CLXII. To make your candles last... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1843 - 332 pagine
...bees in June Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. cc. 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. CC1. To make your candles last... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pagine
...the other must. St. Swithin's dayf 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. No tempest good July, Lest corn come off blue by. • 11 June. f 15 July. PART ix. OOD harvests make... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 pagine
...the other must. St. Swithin's dayf 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. No tempest good July, Lest corn come off blue by. • 11 June. t 15 July. PART IX. i OOD harvests make... | |
 | 1846 - 300 pagine
...And they all lived in a basin of water; The basin bended, FOURTH CLASS—PROVERBS. LXX. 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. LXXI. To make your candles last... | |
 | 1846 - 266 pagine
...; And when the ship began to move, The captain said, " Quack ! quack !" PROVERBS. 68. 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. 69. To make your candles last for... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pagine
...which JB,' — " S. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain ; S. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." To which Ben Jonson, in " Every Man out of his Humour," thus alludes : — " 0, here S. Swithin's,... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pagine
...we dare say, remember the adage expressed in the following words : — " St. Swithun's day, if them dost rain, For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithun's day, if thoube fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." " The origin of the above proverb," says a writer... | |
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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. 
