UNLUCKY DAYS.
The following list of the “evil days in each month” is translated from the original Latin verses in the old Sarum Missal:—
| January. | Of this first month, the opening day |
| And seventh like a sword will slay. | |
| February. | The fourth day bringeth down to death; |
| The third will stop a strong man’s breath. | |
| March. | The first the greedy glutton slays; |
| The fourth cuts short the drunkard’s days. | |
| April. | The tenth and the eleventh, too, |
| Are ready death’s fell work to do. | |
| May. | The third to slay poor man hath power; |
| The seventh destroyeth in an hour. | |
| June. | The tenth a pallid visage shows; |
| No faith nor truth the fifteenth knows. | |
| July. | The thirteenth is a fatal day; |
| The tenth alike will mortals slay. | |
| August. | The first kills strong ones at a blow; |
| The second lays a cohort low. | |
| September. | The third day of the month September, |
| And tenth, bring evil to each member. | |
| October. | The third and tenth, with poisoned breath, |
| To man are foes as foul as death. | |
| November. | The fifth bears scorpion-sting of deadly pain; |
| The third is tinctured with destruction’s train. | |
| December. | The seventh’s a fatal day to human life; |
| The tenth is with a serpent’s venom rife. |