Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos,

Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos,

At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus.

William Harrison: Description of Britain (prefixed to Holinshed's "Chronicle," 1577).

Thirty dayes hath Nouember,

Aprill, June, and September,

February hath xxviii alone,

And all the rest have xxxi.

Richard Grafton: Chronicles of England. (1590.)

Thirty days hath September,