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When the mist comes from the sea,
Then good weather it will be.

BK. 64: AR. i. 164

MOON.

A Saturday moon,

If it comes once in seven years, comes once too soon.

Or

M. ii. 203: G. 538.

A Saturday's moon, Always comes too soon.-BC. 35.

A Saturday's moon and a Sunday's prime,
Never brought good in any man's time.

Northumberland. AS. 114.

Saturday new and Sunday full, Never did good and never ööl (will).

Shrops. AP. 259.

Saturday new, etc.,

Never was good and never wull.

Norfolk. CI. 196.

Saturday's new, etc.,

Was never fine, and never wool.

Suffolk. BC. 341.

A Saturday's moon with Sunday full,

Was never, etc.-CI. 384.

Saturday change and Sunday full,
Is always wet and always wull.

Northamptonshire. D. ii. 409.

Mr. Hazlitt seems to think that and is used in the sense of or (BC. 341); but the contributor who gives with (CI. i. 384), argues that the rhyme relates to the phases of the same moon. Another version is

A Saturday's change and a Sunday's full moon
Once in seven years is once too soon.-BK. 43.

A Saturday's change brings the boat to the door,
But a Sunday's change, brings it upon t' mid-floor.

N. 18.

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Far burr, near rain,

Near burr, far rain.

halo, which, if large, is a sign of rain.

Another rhyme relating to the halo is

When round the moon there is a brugh,

The weather will be cold and rough.

BC. 478, quoting Denham's Proverbs.

Friday's moon,

Come when it will, it comes too soon.

H. 319: G. 538.

If the moon shows a silver shield,
Be not afraid to reap your field.

Lancashire. BA. 233. To which these lines are sometimes

added

BK. 45.

Or

But if she rises haloed round,

Soon we'll tread on deluged ground.

Presumably, a modern addition.

In the old of the moon,

A cloudy morning

Bodes a fair afternoon.-CQ. 27.

In the waning of the moon,

A cloudy morn-fair afternoon.-BE. 150.

Pale moon doth rain, red moon doth blow,
White moon doth neither rain nor snow.
BC. 326, quoting Clarke's Paremiologia, 1639.

The Michaelmas moon

Rises nine nights alike soon.-BJ. 230.

I.e. the harvest moon. N. 57.

The moon and the weather

May change together;

But change of the moon

Does not change the weather:

If we'd no moon at all-
And that may seem strange,
We still should have weather
That's subject to change.

CJ. vi. 246.

Modern, most likely.

The nearer to twelve in the afternoon, the drier the moon, The nearer to twelve in the forenoon, the wetter the moon. Herefordshire. BB. 45.

When the new moon lies on her back,

She sucks the wet into her lap.

Shropshire. AP. 259.

RAIN.

A sunshiny shower

Never lasts half an hour.

Bedfordshire. BK. 67. In Warwickshire they say an hour. In Devonshire they say—

Sunshiny rain will soon go again.

Long foretold, long last,
Short notice, soon past,

Proverb. Folklore, p. 23; and BC. 278.

If it rain on Sunday before mass,

It'll rain all the week more or less.

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If the rain comes before the When the rain comes before

the winds,

wind, Lower your topsails and take You may reef when it begins; But when the wind, etc.,

them in ;

If the wind comes before the You may hoist your topsails

rain,

Lower your topsails and hoist them again.-G. 264.

Or sometimes in this form

up again.-BK. 47.

When the wind comes before the rain,
You may hoist your topsails up again,
But when the rain comes before the winds,
You may reef when it begins.-N. 20.

More rain, more rest;

More water will suit the ducks best.

CG. v. 208. Or

Fine weather isn't always best.—CI. x. 494.

The first line is often given alone, as a harvest proverb. See Ray.

Night rains

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Rain from the east,

Wet two days at least.-BC. 337.

The morn to the mountain,

The evening to the fountain.-N. 13.

BC. 242, quoting Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs, 1640, has-

In the morning mountains,

In the evening fountains,

which may be a version of the above or it may refer to bodies of dense rain-clouds.

Suffolk.

When it rains with the wind in the east,

It rains for twenty-four hours at least.

CV. 168.

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In the morning the rainbow is seen in the clouds westward, the quarter from which we get most rain, and of course in the evening in the opposite quarter of the heavens. AB. 155.

If the rainbow comes at night,

The rain is gone quite.

Suffolk. CV. 168.

If there be a rainbow in the eve,

It will rain and leave:

But if there be a rainbow in the morrow,

It will neither lend nor borrow.-BD. i. 335.

A rainbow in the morn, put your hook in the corn,
A rainbow at eve, put your hook in the sheave.

Cornwall. BC. 34, has "head in the sheave."

SUN.

AR. v. 192.

Rainbow to windward, foul fall the day;
Rainbow to leeward, damp runs away.-BK. 69.

If red the sun begins his race,
Expect that rain will fall apace.

BA. 189: BE. 150

If the sun in red should set,
The next day surely will be wet;
If the sun should set in grey,
The next will be a rainy day.

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