Part 42

'Tween Martinmas and Yule, Water's wine in every pool.

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If it is cold, fair, and dry at Martinmas, the cold in winter will not last long.

Old saying.

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Young and old must go warm at Martinmas.

Italy.

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Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky. Dreary the leaf lieth low, All things must come to the earth by-and-by, Out of which all things grow.

Owen Meredith.

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The year's on the wane, There is nothing adorning, The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning.

Hood.

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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere; Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead, They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-tops calls the crow, through all the gloomy day.

W. Cullen Bryant.

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NOVEMBER 20TH. (St. Edmund's Day.)

Set garlike and pease St. Edmund to please.

Tusser.

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If on Friday it rain, 'Twill on Sunday again; If Friday be clear, Have for Sunday no fear.

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From twelve to two See what the day will do.

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NOVEMBER 23RD. (St. Clement's Day.)

Catherine and Clement, be here, be here; Some of your apples, and some of your beer; Some for Peter, and some for Paul, And some for Him that made us all. Clement was a good old man, For his sake give us some; Not of the worst, but some of the best, And God will send your soul to rest.

Worcestershire.