eptember
Thirty days have as November;
Each month else doth never vary
From thirty-one, save February,
Which twenty-eight doth still confine,
Save on leap year, then twenty-nine.

If Saturday's moon
Come once in seven years,
It comes too soon.

HOLLANTIDE, 1st NOVEMBER

If ducks do slide at Hollantide,
At Christmas they will swim;
If ducks do swim at Hollantide,
At Christmas they will slide.

If New Year's Eve night wind blows south,
It betokeneth warmth and growth;
If west, much milk, and fish in the sea;
If north, much cold and storms there will be;
If east, the trees will bear much fruit;
If north-east, flee it man and brute.

ST VINCENT'S DAY

January 22nd, Old Style.
February 3rd, New Style.

Remember in St Vincent's day
If the sun his beams display,
'Tis a token, bright and clear,
That you will have a prosperous year.

Remember, remember,
The fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot,
I hope that night will never be forgot.
The king and his train
Had like to be slain;
Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder
Set below London to blow London up!

Holla boys! Holla boys!
Let the bells ring!
Holla boys! Holla boys!
God save the King!
A stick or a stake
For Victoria's sake,
And pray ye remember the bonfire night.

LINCOLNSHIRE HARVEST HOME

I rent my shirt and tore my skin
To get my master's harvest in.
Hip! hip! hurrah!
Harvest in and harvest home,
We'll get a good fat hen and bacon bone,
Hip! hip! hurrah!

Farmer Brown has got his corn
Well mown and well shorn.
Hip! hip! hurrah!
Never turned over and never stuck fast,
The harvest cart has come home at last.
Hip! hip! hurrah!

February borrowed from fair April
Three days, and paid them back all ill.
First of them was ra' and weet,
The second of them was sna' and sleet,
And the third of them was sic a freeze,
The birds they stickit upon the trees.

February fill the dike,
Be it black, or be it white!
If it be white, it's the better to like.

Oak before ash,
There'll be a splash;
Ash before oak,
There'll be a choke.

ESSEX

Winter thunder,
Rich man's food,
And poor man's hunger.

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