Major erit glacies post festum quàm fuit ante."
Rendered thus:
"When on the Purification sun hath shin'd,
The greater part of winter comes behind."
2. "If the sun shines on Easter-day, it shines on Whit
Sunday likewise."
To this I may add the French adage:
"Quel est Vendredi tel Dimanche."
From a MS. now in my possession, dating two centuries back, I extract the following remarks on "Times and Seasons," as not wholly unconnected with the present subject:
"Easter-day never falleth lower than the 22nd of March, and never higher than the 25th of April."
"Shrove Sunday has its range between the 1st of February and the 7th of March."
"Whit Sunday between the 10th of May and the 13th of June."
"A rule of Shrovetide:—The Tuesday after the second change of the moon after New Year's-day is always Shrove Tuesday."