...eccentricities. This legend is the foundation of the popular belief — " St. Swithin's Day, if thon dost rain, For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain no mair;" and Thomas Passenger, author of the " Shepherd's Kalendar," offers this wrinkle to the weatherwise:...

...; He put the halter round her neck — so Moss caught his mare. FOURTH CLASS— PROVERBS. LXXX. |T. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it...thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair, LXXXI. To make your candles last for a', You wives and maids give ear-o ! LXXXII. IF wishes were horses,...

...; He put the halter round her neck — so Moss caught his mare. FOURTH CLASS— PROVERBS. LXXX. |T. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's clay, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair, LXXXI. To make your caudles last for a',...

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...Kr. Brand, from a memorandum by Mr. Douce: " I have heard these lines upon St. Swithin's day : — " St Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if tbou be fair For forty days t will rain na mair. Ben Jonson, in " Every man out of Ms humour," has...

...heaven. The popular Scotch proverb has possibly its origin from the expression he 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—...

...of the 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...St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 't will rain na niair." Bo Gay sings, in his Trivia:— " If on St. Swithin's feast the welkin towers,...

...debase thy 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...St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 't will rain na mair." Note. — The reader who desires to follow out the subject, and to investigate...

...The most 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...thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." The legend runs, that Swithin, who was Chancellor to Khg Ethelbert, and died in 862 or 863, directed...

...was formerly said it was the christening of the apples ; and the proverb has it — " St. Swithun's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithun's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." This well known tradition had...