Image 011, folio 4a; A prognostication; the weather
| A prognostication | fo.4. | |||
| colde and windie. Wednesday prime, wonderfull. Thursday prime, fayre and | ||||
| cleare. Friday prime, mixte weather. Saterday prime, moyst weather. | ||||
| Now ensue extraordinary tokens for the knowledge | ||||
| of weather | ||||
| Some have observed evill weather to followe, when as watrye foules leave the | ||||
| sea, desireinge lande: the fowles of the land flyinge high: the crying of fowles | ||||
| about waters makeing a greate noyse with theire winges: allso the seas swelling | ||||
| with unaccustomed waves: If beastes eate greedilye: If they licke thiere hoves* | ||||
| If they suddenlye move heere and there making a noyse, breatheing up to the | ||||
| ayre with open nostrells: rayne followeth. And the busy heaveing of moules*: | ||||
| the appearinge or comeinge out of wormes: hennes resorting to the pearch or | ||||
| rest covered with dust, declare rayne. The ample workeinge of the spinner* | ||||
| in the ayre: the ant busied with her eggs: the bees in fayre weather not farre | ||||
| wandringe: the continuall prateinge of the crowe, chiefely twise or thrise quicke | ||||
| callinge, shewe tempeste. When the crowe or raven gapeth agaynst the sunne | ||||
| in summer, heate followeth. If they busy themselves in proyning* or washeing, | ||||
| and that in winter, looke for rayne. The unaccustomed noyse of poultrye, the | ||||
| noyse of swine, of peackes, declare the same. The swallowe flyinge & beating | ||||
| the water, the chirpinge of the sparrowe in the morninge signify rayne. Rayne | ||||
| suddenlye dryed up. Woody coverings streighter then of custome. Bels hearde | ||||
| further then commonlye, the walloweinge of doggs, the alteration of ye cockes | ||||
| croweinge, all declare raynye weather. I leave these, wanteinge the good | ||||
| grownde of the reste. If the learned be desireous of the aforesayde, let | ||||
| reade grave Virgill, Primo Georgiorum. At Bor. &c.* | ||||
| Seing that I have nowe sufficiently declared howe, by what rules and tokens wea- | ||||
| ther is iudged: I thinke it convenient to adioyne* heere a briefe collection, howe | ||||
| Plentye, Scarcitye, Sicknesse, Deathe, Altecation, Troubles, Warres, &c are forever | ||||
| perceived. | ||||
| A rule to prognosticate the aforesayd by the | ||||
| fallinge of Newyeares daye. | ||||
| Sunday | It is affirmed of some, when Newyeares day falleth on the Sunday, then a pleasant | |||
| winter doth ensue: a natural summer:fruite sufficient: harveste indifferent, yet | ||||
| some winde and rayne: many marriages: plenty of wine and honye: death of yong | ||||
| men, and cattell: robberies in most places, newes of prelates, of Kings, and cruell | ||||
| warres in the ende. | ||||
| Monday | On Monday, a winter somewhat uncomfortable: Summer temperate: no plenty of | |||
| fruite: many fancies and fables opened: agues shall raigne: Kings and many others | ||||
| shall die: Marriages shall bee in most places: and a common fall of gentlemen. | ||||
| Tuesday | On Tuesday, a stormy winter: a wet summer: a divers harvest: corne and fruite | |||
| indifferent, yet hearbes in gardens shall not flourishe: great sicknes of men, | ||||
| women and young children. Beastes shall hunger starve, and dye of the botche*: | ||||
| many shippes, gallies, and hulkes, shall be loste; And the bloudye fluxes shall | ||||
| kill manye men: All things deare, save corne. | ||||
| On |
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Transcribed by JW