“Saturdays new and Sundays full
Never was good, and never wull.
“If you see the old moon with the new, there will be stormy weather.
“If it rains on a Sunday before mass,
It rains all the week, more or less.
“If it rains on a Sunday before the church doors are open, it will rain all the week, more or less; or else we shall have three rainy Sundays.
“If it rains the first Thursday after the moon comes in, it will rain, more or less, all the while the moon lasts, especially on Thursdays.
“If there be bad weather, and the sun does not shine all the week, it will always show forth some time on the Saturday.
“It will not be a hard winter when acorns abound, and there are no hips nor haws:
“If Noah’s Ark shows many days together,
There will be foul weather.
“On three nights in the year it never lightens (i.e. clears up) anywhere; and if a man knew those nights, he would not turn a dog out.
“We shall have a severe winter when the swallows and martins take great pains to teach their young ones to fly; they are going a long journey, to get away from the cold that is coming. It is singular they should know this, but they do.