A cold May and a windy
Makes a fat barn and a findy.
A hot May makes a fat churchyard.
Proverbs relating to the Weather and Seasons generally.
Collected by Dr. Forster.
Drought never bred dearth in England.
Whoso hath but a mouth, shall ne’er in England suffer drought.
When the sand doth feed the clay,
England woe and welladay;
But when the clay doth feed the sand,
Then it is well with Angle land.
After a famine in the stall,
Comes a famine in the hall.
When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn,
Sell your cow, and buy your corn;
But when she comes to the full bit,
Sell your corn, and buy your sheep.
If the cock moult before the hen,
We shall have weather thick and thin;
But if the hen moult before the cock,
We shall have weather hard as a block.
As the days lengthen, so the cold strengthen.