Que le soleil soiet cler et biau,
Nous érons du vin plus que d'eau."
These lines follow immediately after the rhymed prognostications to be drawn from the state of the weather on St. Paul's Day, Jan. 28. As these
verses differ from those quoted in Brand, from an Almanack printed at Basle in 1672, I here give the Guernsey copy:
"Je te donneray ugne doctryne
Qui te vauldra d'or ugne myne;
Et sordement sur moy te fonde,
Car je dure autant que ce monde:
Et sy te veulx byen advertir
Et que je ne veulx point mentir.