If January calends be summerly gay,
It will be winterly weather till the calends of May.
(The calends, it may be explained, were the first days of the months.)
ST. PAUL'S DAY (January 25th)
If St. Paul's Day be faire and cleare,
It doth betide a happy year:
But if by chance it then should rain,
It will make deare all kinds of graine:
And if ye clouds make dark ye sky,
Then meate and fowles this year shall die: