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

...Lyra et Leo occidunt. — Rom. Cal. Holiday at the Public Offices. Holly and Ivy taken down. An old metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin's,...and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. This adage seems, in part, to be a free translation of the prophetic ancient verses quoted yesterday...

...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...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again.' A few of these notions are still prevalent in remote districts. Mrs. Grant, in her account of the superstitions...

...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 Day, 1867, was remarkably...

...Almanacs 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...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection, to the same effect : — " The hind had as lief see...

...Almanaes did not neglect this day : one of them BOOK thus partly imitates the proverb : — Caudlemat " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection, to the same effect : — " The hind had as licf see...

...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...But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gonc and will not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection, to the same effect...

...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 proverb in Ray's collection,...

...louring, a mild and gentle season ensuing." To the same effect is the old prediction — " If Candlemai day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight;...and rain. Winter is gone, and will not come again." Very similar is the ancient Latin distich — " Si sol splendcirat Maria puriflcante, Major erit glacics...