...old metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin, Moore, and other Almanacks reminds us : — " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another Flight." This adage seems a free translation of the following ancient verses : — " Si Sol splendescat Maria...

...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...

.... — " If St. Paul's 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...

...cold for the next six weeks or two months, that it has given rise to several proverbs, especially, If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. Dr Forster states that he had consulted several journals of weather, which satisfied him that this...

...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...and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." Agreeing with the Scottish :— "If Candlemas is fair and clear, There '11 be two winterj in the year."...