THE old English Rule published in our first Almanacks agrees exactly with our Author's Observation.
If red the Sun begins his Race,
Be sure that Rain will fall apace.
IF the Reader would see this elegantly described, the Master of Poets hath it thus.[a] ]
Above the Rest, the Sun, who never lies,
Foretels the Change of Weather in the Skies;
For if he rise unwilling to his Race,
Clouds on his Brow, and Spots upon his Face,
Or if thro' Mists he shoots his sullen Beams,
Frugal of light, in loose and straggling Streams,