observing them,
in order to discover whether there be any thing in them or not.

_Janiveer_ freeze the Pot by the Fire

If the Grass grow in _Janiveer_
It grows the worse for't all the Year.
The _Welchman_ had rather see his Dam on the Bier
Than to see a fair _Februeer_.
_March_ Wind and _May_ Sun
Make Clothes white and Maids Dun.
When _April_ blows his Horn
It's good both for Hay and Corn.
An _April_ Flood
Carries away the Frog and her Brood.
A cold _May_ and a windy
Makes a full Barn and a Findy.
A _May_ Flood never did good.
A Swarm of Bees in _May_
Is worth a Load of Hay.
But a Swarm in _July_
Is not worth a Fly, _&c._

XXV.

WINTER. _If the latter End of_ October _and Beginning of_ November
_be for the most Part warm and rainy, then_ January _and_
February are like to be frosty and cold, _except after a
very dry Summer_.

IT is very evident, supposing this Observation to be true, as I am
pretty confident it is, that the Reason of it is to be sought in that
Balance of the Weather which Providence has established. There is not
only a Time to sow, and a Time to reap, but there is a Time also for
dry and a Time for wet Weather, and if these do not happen at proper
Seasons, they will certainly happen at other Seasons; for not only the
Wisdom of Philosophers hath discerned, but their Experiments and
Observations have put it out of doubt, that there is a certain Rule or
Proportion observed between wet Weather and dry in every Country, so
that it is nearly the same in every annual Revolution, neither is wet
and dry Weather only, but hot and cold, open and frost, that are thus
regulated, from whence we see, that when the Scripture represents to us
God's settling Things by Weight and Measure, it speaks not only
elegantly, but exactly. For we do not mean by Providence any
extraordinary or supernatural Interposition of almighty Power, but the
constant and settled Order established by the Will of that almighty
Being which we commonly call Nature.

THERE is nothing easier than for vulgar Understandings to mistake the
Meaning of Words, and by a Superstition natural to weak Minds convert,
what they imperfectly understand into Notions that perplex and confound
them. Hence it proceeds that in common Conversation one hears People
speak of Nature as of a Being, or a Kind of subordinate Deity, whereas
in Reality the true M