Know the best season to laugh and to sing,
Is winter, is summer, is autumn, is spring.
Old Song.
Hagman Heigh
Old Yorkshire custom for Hag-or Wood-man to go round to ask for money on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve.
Hark, the cock crows, and yon bright star
Tells us the day himself's not far;
And see where, breaking from the night,
He gilds the western hills with light.
With him old Janus doth appear,
Peeping into the future year,
With such a look as seems to say,
The prospect is not good that way.