When the mist comes from the sea, 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, 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, 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 A Saturday's change brings the boat to the door, N. 18. 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, 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, 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- 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, Proverb. Folklore, p. 23; and BC. 278. If it rain on Sunday before mass, It'll rain all the week more or less. 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, 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 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. 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, Cornwall. BC. 34, has "head in the sheave." SUN. AR. v. 192. Rainbow to windward, foul fall the day; If red the sun begins his race, BA. 189: BE. 150 If the sun in red should set, |