whom Chaucer numbers with "great Omer" and others as bearing up the fame of Troy (House of Fame, b. iii.).
Friday Weather.—The following meteorological proverb is frequently repeated in Devonshire, to denote the variability of the weather on Friday:
"Fridays in the week
are never aleek."
"Aleek" for "alike," a common Devonianism. Thus Peter Pindar describes a turbulent crowd of people as being
"Leek bullocks sting'd by apple-drones."
Is this bit of weather-wisdom current in other parts of the kingdom? I am induced to ask the question, because Chaucer seems to have embodied the proverb in some well-known lines, viz.:—
"Right as the Friday, sothly for to tell,
Now shineth it, and now it raineth fast,
Right so can gery Venus overcast