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Medley of Weather Lore-M. E. S. Wright · The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of a Medley of weatherlore. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Wandering Walker. A Medley of Weatherlaw by mas Wright.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one January ancient Cornish name for the month miss
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  Speaker 1: gender cold air month due for the month darn it constancy.
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  Speaker 1: If Janebay calends be sommerly, gay twill be wintery weather
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  Speaker 1: till the calons of May. The wind of the south
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  Speaker 1: will be productive by heat and fertility, the wind of
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  Speaker 1: the west of milk and fish, the wind from the
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  Speaker 1: north of cold and storm, the wind from the east
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  Speaker 1: of fruit on the trees Scotland at New Year's tide
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  Speaker 1: day's length, and the cockstride bother bin and north. A
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  Speaker 1: cold January, a feverish February, and dusty March, a weep
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  Speaker 1: in April, a windy May, presage of good year, and
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  Speaker 1: gay fran Warwickshire countrymen to ensure good luck found nine
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  Speaker 1: time for the first women of the year, a snow year,
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  Speaker 1: a richer the blackest month of all the year is
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  Speaker 1: a month of janevie through all the sad and weary
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  Speaker 1: hours which cold and dark and storms will bring we
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  Speaker 1: scarce believe in what we know, that time drags on
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  Speaker 1: at last till spring, the empty pastures blind with rain.
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  Speaker 1: If the grass grow in Janity two will be worse
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  Speaker 1: for all the year. A fair day in winter with
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  Speaker 1: the mother of a storm, underwater, famine, under snow, bread
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  Speaker 1: marching Janity janevieer in March, I see a year of snow,
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  Speaker 1: a year of plenty Spain, winter time for shoeing, peace
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  Speaker 1: could time for women Devon fifteen sixty five, on twelve
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  Speaker 1: evening Christmas, they used to set up as high as
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  Speaker 1: they can and siever vas and in it a dozen
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  Speaker 1: candle set round, and in the center one large all lighted.
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  Speaker 1: This in memory of our Savior and its apostles lights
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Westmeaf custom in the southerns of Devonshire,
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  Speaker 1: on the eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by
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  Speaker 1: his workmen, with a large picture of cider, goes to
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  Speaker 1: the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees,
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  Speaker 1: they drink the following toast free. Several times. Here's today
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  Speaker 1: old apple tree, when so MAT's bud, and whence sell
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  Speaker 1: mats blown, and when so may spare apples. He now
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  Speaker 1: hats fall gaps full, bush and bush and saxophone, and
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  Speaker 1: my pockets fall too. Aza old custom of blessing apple
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  Speaker 1: trees on twelve day, apple tree, apple tree, bear apples
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  Speaker 1: for me, hats fall, laps full, saxophone capsful, apple tree,
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  Speaker 1: apple tree, bear apples for me. Twelfth day came in
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  Speaker 1: a tiffany suit, white and gold, like a queen on
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  Speaker 1: the flosh cake or royal glittering man. Epiphanous Elia. January
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  Speaker 1: the fourteenth w be either the coldest or wettest day
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  Speaker 1: of the year, Huntingdon. Saint Anthony January seventeth. It is
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  Speaker 1: affirmed of him all the world bemoaned his death, for
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  Speaker 1: afterwards there fell no rain from heaven for three years.
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  Speaker 1: Saint Vincent January twenty second, Old style February third, New style.
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  Speaker 1: Rember In said Vincent's day, if the sun has been displayed,
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  Speaker 1: tis a token, bright and clear that you will have
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  Speaker 1: a prosperous year. Winter's wonders, Summer's wonder Saint Paul's Eve,
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  Speaker 1: January twenty fourth. Winter's white would doth cover all the
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  Speaker 1: ground and cacious blows his blitter blast of woe. The
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  Speaker 1: ponds and pools and streams in ice are bound and
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  Speaker 1: famished birds are shivering in the snow still round about
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  Speaker 1: the house, say flitting go and at the windows, seek
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  Speaker 1: for scraps of food, which charity with hand profused or
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  Speaker 1: fro right, witting that in need of it they stood.
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  Speaker 1: For Charity is shown by working creatures good the sparrow pert,
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  Speaker 1: the chaffin's gay and clean, the red breasts welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the cotter's house, the lively blue tomted, the oxy green,
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  Speaker 1: the dingy dunnet, and the swart cold mouse, the titmouse
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  Speaker 1: of the marsh, the nimble wren, the bulfinch, and the
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  Speaker 1: gold spink. With the king of birds of gold crests
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  Speaker 1: the fresh now, and then the blackbird want to whistle
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  Speaker 1: in the spring, like Christians seek the heavenly food. Saint
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  Speaker 1: pauled off, Bring dr forster, set poles there. If the
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  Speaker 1: polls they be fair and clear, it promises and the
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  Speaker 1: happy year. But if it chanced to snow, will rain,
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  Speaker 1: then will be dear all sorts of grain. Or if
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  Speaker 1: the wind do blow aloft great stars will decks a
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  Speaker 1: wilfull off and in dot clouds do moss the sky.
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  Speaker 1: Then fowl and catt all loft will die to passenger
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  Speaker 1: of God. For the latter part of January and February.
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  Speaker 1: The Missourian tree, which then blossoms croakers, furnus, both the
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  Speaker 1: yellow and the gray, primroses and emones, the early tulippa
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  Speaker 1: higher Symphus orientalis, chamaris, fretillaria, bacon. But January spring is
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  Speaker 1: worth no thing. Pluck broom, broom still cut, broom broom killed.
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  Speaker 1: TUSSA good gardener, Mine make garden fine, said garden. Peas
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  Speaker 1: and beans, if you please, said Respis, and rose on roots.
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  Speaker 1: Of those who now sows oats gets golden groats. Who
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  Speaker 1: sows in they gets little that way. Tussa a kindly
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  Speaker 1: good January freezer bot by the fire, Oh winter wilt
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  Speaker 1: thou never never go, oh summer, But I weary for
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  Speaker 1: thy coming, David Gray. If the robin sings in the bush,
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  Speaker 1: and the weather will be course. But if the robin
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  Speaker 1: sings on the barn, then the weather will be warm. Norfolk.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one, chapter two of the Medley of
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  Speaker 1: weatherlor This is LibriVox recording or lib ofvox recordings are
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  Speaker 1: medley of weatherlor by Emis Write, Chapter two February, ancient
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  Speaker 1: Cornish name. Whoever whirl in month duel amephyist sincerity. One
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  Speaker 1: month is past, another is begune. Since merry bows ran
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  Speaker 1: out to die in the and buds of rarest green
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  Speaker 1: began to peer, as if impatient for a warmer sun,
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  Speaker 1: and know the distant hills are bleak and done. The
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  Speaker 1: virgin snowdrop, like a land bent fire, pierces the cold
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  Speaker 1: earth with its green streak spire, and in dark woods
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  Speaker 1: are wandering little. One may find a primrose Hartly Collarridge
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  Speaker 1: fair rising from her icy couch, one herald of the
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  Speaker 1: floor all year. The snowdrop marks the springs approach here,
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  Speaker 1: Yet the primrose groups appear or peers. The a run
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  Speaker 1: from its spotted veil or violet scent. The cold, capricious gale,
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte Smith Candlemas shined, and the winter's behind. If Candomus
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  Speaker 1: day be fair and bright, the winter will take another flight.
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  Speaker 1: But if it should be dark and drear, then winter
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  Speaker 1: is gone for another year. When on the purification sun
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  Speaker 1: have shined, the greater part of winter comes behind. The
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  Speaker 1: badger peeps out of this hole on Candlemass Day, and
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  Speaker 1: if he finds snows, walks abroad. But if he sees
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  Speaker 1: the sun shining, he draws back into his hole. German saying,
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  Speaker 1: on the Candlemass day, if the forms Hannah drop, then
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  Speaker 1: you are sure of the good pea crop. When the
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  Speaker 1: wind's in the east on Candlemass Day, there it will stick.
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  Speaker 1: To the second of May, February filled the ditch black
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  Speaker 1: or white. We don't care which ants all the months
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  Speaker 1: of the year. Fear of fair of February. The group
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  Speaker 1: of a somber February day. There is an old proverb,
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  Speaker 1: the birds of the Februar St. Valentine's Day will meet together.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen thirty three. Why Valentine's a days to choose a
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  Speaker 1: mistress and our freedom lose? May I my reason interpose
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  Speaker 1: a question with an answer clothes to imitate. We have
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  Speaker 1: a mind and couple like the wind kind. John Taunton
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  Speaker 1: early rose just at the break of day, before the
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  Speaker 1: sun had chased the stars away a field. I went
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  Speaker 1: in the morning June to milk my kine, For so
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  Speaker 1: should housewives do. The first I spied and the first
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  Speaker 1: sway we see in spite of fortune, Shall our true
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  Speaker 1: love be gay? Shrove tied beef and Bacon's app season.
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  Speaker 1: I want a pan to partch my peas and box
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  Speaker 1: Nick knocked bands up, and we have come the troving
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  Speaker 1: for a piece of pancake or a piece of bacon,
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  Speaker 1: or a piece of truckle cheese. Off your oat making hands.
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  Speaker 1: On Shrove Tuesday night, Oh, the supper be fat before Easterday.
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  Speaker 1: No mace fast for that I older man. Pancake bell Congleton.
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  Speaker 1: The housekeeper goes to the hugster's shop, and the eggs
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  Speaker 1: are brought home, and heres flop flop flop, and there's
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  Speaker 1: butter and butter and savory smell, while merely a pancake bell.
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  Speaker 1: So much sun as shineth on Pancake Tuesday. The light
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  Speaker 1: will shine every day and a whole frost. Third day crossed,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth lost, thanks beans snowing, one for the mouth,
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  Speaker 1: one for the grow, want to rot, want to grow
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  Speaker 1: so peas and the beans the wane of the loon
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  Speaker 1: who soweth them. Soon they soweth too soon, that they
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  Speaker 1: with the planet may rest and rise and flourish with
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  Speaker 1: bearing most pendlentyful wise Tusser. If February gives much snow,
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  Speaker 1: a fine summer it does fall, show now set for
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  Speaker 1: thy pot, best herbs to be got, four flowers, go
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  Speaker 1: set all sorts you can get, Tusser. In Oxfordshire, the
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  Speaker 1: first be seen in February is saluted, as this is
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  Speaker 1: said to bring good luck. Frush's son, did he do it?
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  Speaker 1: Did he do it?
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  Speaker 2: Come and see, come and see need deep cherry sweet,
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  Speaker 2: cherry sweet to me, to me, to me, the pretty
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  Speaker 2: dark climbing the welking clear chants with a cheer, hay pier,
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  Speaker 2: I name my dear. When stooping mens seeming a thoughting.
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  Speaker 1: Room, a juicy cries, and you do love a gee.
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  Speaker 1: When after a rough and stormy day there is a
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  Speaker 1: lull in the wind and the going down of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: old men say, or shall have better weather now, for
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  Speaker 1: the wind's gone to sleep with the sun devon. When
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  Speaker 1: a more Land shepherd meets his sheep on the winter's night,
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  Speaker 1: coming down from the hilltops with he prefer to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: He knows that a storm is brewing. End of chapter.
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  Speaker 3: Two, Chapter three of A Medley of weather Lore. This
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  Speaker 3: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Rebecca eden Walker. A Medley
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  Speaker 3: of weather Lore by M. E. S. Wright. March ancient
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  Speaker 3: Cornish name, miss Muirth, horsemunk, jewel, bloodstone, courage and wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: Upon Saint David's day, put oates and barley in the clay.
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  Speaker 3: The leak is white and green, whereby is meant that
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  Speaker 3: Britons are both stout and eminent. Next to the lion
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  Speaker 3: and the unicorn. The leaks the fairest emblem that is
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  Speaker 3: worn harleyan ms. On the first of March, the crows
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  Speaker 3: begin to search. By the first of April they are
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  Speaker 3: sitting still. By the first of May they are flown away,
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  Speaker 3: croup and greedy, back again with October wind and rain.
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  Speaker 3: He who freely lops in March will get his laphull
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  Speaker 3: of fruit Portuguese saying, tossing his mane of snows in
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  Speaker 3: the wildest eddies and tangles. Warlike March cometh in hoarse
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  Speaker 3: with tempestuous breath through all the moaning chimneys, and thwart
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  Speaker 3: all the hollows and angles round the shuddering house, breathing
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  Speaker 3: of winter and death. W d howls, Welcome o March,
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  Speaker 3: whose kindly days and dry make April ready for the
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  Speaker 3: throstle song, thou first redresser of the winter's wrong w
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  Speaker 3: Morris of gardens for March. There come violets, especially the
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  Speaker 3: single blue, which are the earliest, the early daffodil, the daisy,
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  Speaker 3: the almond tree in blossom, the peach tree in blossom,
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  Speaker 3: the Cornelian dogwood tree in blossom, sweet briar bacon. A
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  Speaker 3: frosty winter and a dusty March, and a rain about Aprirel,
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  Speaker 3: and another about the lummist time when the corn begins
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  Speaker 3: to fill. Is worth a plowey of gold and all
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  Speaker 3: her pins their till come. Gather crocus cups with me,
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  Speaker 3: and dream of the summer coming. Saffron and purple and
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  Speaker 3: snowy white, all awake to the first bees humming. The
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  Speaker 3: white is there for the maiden heart, the purple is
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  Speaker 3: there for sorrow, the saffron is there for the true
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  Speaker 3: true love. And they'll all be dead tomorrow. Sebastian Evans
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  Speaker 3: beside the garden path. The crocus now puts forth its
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  Speaker 3: head to woo the genial breeze, and finds the snowdrop
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  Speaker 3: heartier visitant, already basking in the sol array. Upon the brook,
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  Speaker 3: the water cresses float more greenly, and the bordering reeds
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  Speaker 3: exult higher. Their spiry summits joyously from stone to stone.
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  Speaker 3: The ousel flits along, startling the linet from the hawthorn bough,
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  Speaker 3: while on the elm tree, overshadowing deep the low roof
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  Speaker 3: cottage white. The blackbird sits cheerily, hymning the awakened year.
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  Speaker 3: Blank earth. Baldness clothes itself afresh and breaks into the
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  Speaker 3: croacus purple hour Tennyson springs in expansive time. Yet I
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  Speaker 3: don't trust March with its peck of dust, nor April,
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  Speaker 3: with its rainbow crowned brief showers, nor even May, whose
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  Speaker 3: flowers one frost may wither through the sunless hours see Rossetti.
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  Speaker 3: If it does not freeze on the tenth of March,
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  Speaker 3: a fertile year may be expected in March. Is good graphing.
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  Speaker 3: The skillful do know, so long as the wind in
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  Speaker 3: the east do not blow, the moon being changed till
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  Speaker 3: past be the prime for graphing and cropping. Is very
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  Speaker 3: good time. Tusser in March and in April, from morning
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  Speaker 3: to night, in sowing and setting. Good housewives delight to
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  Speaker 3: have in a garden or other like plot, to trim
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  Speaker 3: up their house and to furnish their pot. Tusser to
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  Speaker 3: the daffodil, o love star of the unbeloved. March, when
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  Speaker 3: cold and shrill forth flows beneath a low, dim lighted arch,
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  Speaker 3: the wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill, and
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  Speaker 3: keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill, harold and harbinger. With
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  Speaker 3: THEE begins the year's great jubilee of her Solemnity's sublime,
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  Speaker 3: a sacristan whose gusty taper flashes through earliest morning vapor
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  Speaker 3: thou ringest dark nocturns, and dim prime birds that have
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  Speaker 3: yet no heart for song, gain strength with THEE to
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  Speaker 3: twitter and warm at last, where Holly's throng the mirrored
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  Speaker 3: sunbeams glitter a de vere the softest turf of English green,
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  Speaker 3: with sloping walks and trees between, and then a bed
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  Speaker 3: of flowers half seen here daffodils in early spring, and
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  Speaker 3: violets their offerings, spring and sweetest birds their hymns out
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  Speaker 3: sing when country roads begin to thaw in modeled spots
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  Speaker 3: of damp and dust, and fences by the margin draw
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  Speaker 3: along the frozen crust their graphic silhouettes. I say the
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  Speaker 3: spring is coming round this way. When suddenly some shadow
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  Speaker 3: bird goes wavering beneath the gaze and through the hedge,
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  Speaker 3: the moan is heard of kind that fame would graze
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  Speaker 3: and grass as new. I smile and say, thus spring
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  Speaker 3: is coming round this way. Wickhamb Riley, Oh, what a
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  Speaker 3: dawn of day. How the mart's sun feels like may
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  Speaker 3: all is blue again after last night's rain browning. No
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  Speaker 3: summer flowers are half so sweet eat as those of
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  Speaker 3: early spring. Under the firs is hunger and cold. Under
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  Speaker 3: the broom is silver and gold the spring when wintry
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  Speaker 3: weathers all adone and brooks do sparkle in the sun,
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  Speaker 3: and naisy building rooks do flee with sticks towards their
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  Speaker 3: elm tree. When birds do sing and we can see
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  Speaker 3: upon the bough the buds o spring, then I'm as
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  Speaker 3: happy as a king, a vealed with health and sunshine.
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  Speaker 3: For then the cowslips hanging flower awhetted in the sunny shower,
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  Speaker 3: do grow with violets sweet o smell beside the woodscreen.
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  Speaker 3: Gregel's bell, where drushes eggs with sky blue shell do
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  Speaker 3: lie in mossy nests among the thorns, while they do
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  Speaker 3: sing their song at evening in the sunshen w barnes
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  Speaker 3: a kemelmle bed. The more it is trodden, the more
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  Speaker 3: it will spread. Thunder and spring, cold will bring March
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  Speaker 3: search April, try May will prove if you live or die.
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  Speaker 3: March wind and May sun makes clothes white and maids done.
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  Speaker 3: March does from April gain three days, and there all
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  Speaker 3: in rain return by April ins bad kind three days
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  Speaker 3: and there in wind. Sunset in a clear easterly winds
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  Speaker 3: near sunset in a bank westerly will not lack. Scotland
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, look toward the southeast. In the evening,
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  Speaker 3: look toward the northwest. China. Pale moon, doth rain, red moon,
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  Speaker 3: doth blow, white moon, doth neither rain nor snow Latin proverb,
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  Speaker 3: any person neglecting to kill the first butterfly he may
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  Speaker 3: see for the season will have ill luck throughout the year.
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  Speaker 3: Devon and hants. Saint Patrick's day, March seventeenth. Gervais of
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  Speaker 3: Tilbury gives a legend that on Saint Patrick's day, to
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  Speaker 3: do homage to him, the fish rise from the sea,
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  Speaker 3: pass in procession before his altar, and then disappear divination
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  Speaker 3: by a daffodil. When a daffodil I see hanging down
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  Speaker 3: his head towards me, guess I may what I must be. First,
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  Speaker 3: I shall decline my head. Secondly I shall be dead,
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  Speaker 3: lastly safely buried herrick hail once again that sweet, strong note,
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  Speaker 3: loud on my loftiest larch, Thou quaverest with thy modeled throat,
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  Speaker 3: brave minstrel of bleak March a Austin March twenty first
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  Speaker 3: spring begins where the wind is at twelve o'clock on
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  Speaker 3: the twenty first of March. There she'll bide for three
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  Speaker 3: months Afterwards, Surreon hants when the wind from northeast a
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  Speaker 3: uniformly dry quarter during the week of the vernal equinox,
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  Speaker 3: it is an all but unfailing guide to the general
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  Speaker 3: character of the ensuing season. Our vernal signs. The ram begins,
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  Speaker 3: then comes the bull in May, the twins, the crab
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  Speaker 3: in June. Next Leo shines and virgo ends. The northern signs.
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  Speaker 3: The balance brings autumnal fruits. The scorpion stings, the archer shoots.
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  Speaker 3: December's goat brings wintry blast, aquarius rain, the fish come last,
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  Speaker 3: e se Brewer, Spring is here when you can tread
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  Speaker 3: on nine daisies at once. On the village green, there
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  Speaker 3: is a saying that if boys be beaten with an
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  Speaker 3: elder stick, it hinders their growth. When our Lord falls
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  Speaker 3: in our lady's lap, England will meet with a great mishap.
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  Speaker 3: There is a tradition amongst New Forest Gypsies that you
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  Speaker 3: must not soap your face on Good Friday, as it
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  Speaker 3: is said that soap SuDS were thrown in our Lord's
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  Speaker 3: face on the day of his crucifixion. Thou wilt remember
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  Speaker 3: one warm morn when winter crept aged from the earth,
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  Speaker 3: and spring's first breath blue soft from the moist hills.
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  Speaker 3: The blackthorn boughs, so dark in the bare wood, when
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  Speaker 3: glistening in the sunshine, were white with coming buds, like
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  Speaker 3: the bright side of a sorrow. And the banks had
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: violets opening from sleep, like eyes frowning. If apples bloom
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  Speaker 3: in March, in vain form your search. If apples bloom
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  Speaker 3: in April, why then they'll be plentiful. If apples bloom
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  Speaker 3: in May, you may eat em night and day from
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: whatever quarter the wind blows on Palm Sunday, it will
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  Speaker 3: continue to blow for the greater part of the coming summer.
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  Speaker 3: As many days of fog in March, so many days
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  Speaker 3: of frost in May, on corresponding days hants. In spring,
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  Speaker 3: a tub of rain makes a spoonful of mud. In autumn,
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  Speaker 3: a spoonful of rain makes a tub of mud. There
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  Speaker 3: is a tradition that twin lambs are scarce in leap year.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep with your head to the north. You will have
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  Speaker 3: sickness to the south, long life to the east, health
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  Speaker 3: and riches to the west. Fame end of chapter three
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  Speaker 3: recording by Rebecca eden Walker.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four of a Medley of Weatherlore. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Were called in by Wandering Walker and Medley of Weatherlore
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  Speaker 1: by mes Wright. Chapter four April ancient Cornish name Miszebral
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  Speaker 1: primrose month, due for the month, sapphire freeze from enchantment.
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  Speaker 1: If it funders on Old Falls Day, it brings good
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: crops of grain and hay. The first thunder of the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: year awakes all the frogs and all the snakes. MS.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty years old. The first Monday in
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  Speaker 1: April came was born and Abel was slain. The second Monday, August,
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  Speaker 1: Alderman Goomora were destroyed. The thirsty verse of December, Judas
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  Speaker 1: was born, who portrayed Christ. These are dangerous days to
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  Speaker 1: begin any business, fall sick, or undertake any journey the west.
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  Speaker 1: Good Friday and Easter Day brings plenty of grasp, but
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: little good hay. Leicester Parsley sown on Good Friday bears
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a heavier crop than that sown on any other day.
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  Speaker 1: Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil before coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Comes up, partially because the devil takes the tithe of it.
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  Speaker 1: Old country sayings, Oh, faint, delicious springtide, violet fin odor
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: like a key, turns noiselessly in memories wards to let
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  Speaker 1: a thought of sorrow free w story. What affections the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: violet wakes? What love? Little islands twice seen in their legs.
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  Speaker 1: Can the wild water lily restore? What landscapes I read
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in the primroses looks, and what pictures of pebbled and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: minnowee brooks in the vetches that tangle their shore campbell
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: descend sweet april from water rebow and liberal strow. The
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: ground with budding flowers, with leafless crogus, beaf veiled violet
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: are auricular with powdered cut primrose that loves to lurk
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: below the hawful shade. Graham spring is strong and virtuous,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: broad sewing, cheerful, plenteous quickening underneath the mold grains beyond
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the price of gold, so deep and larger bounties are
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: there's one broad long Midsummer day shall to the planets
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  Speaker 1: overpay the ravage of a year of war. Emerson in
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  Speaker 1: wild More, austerile heath, bright with the golden furs, beneath
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  Speaker 1: a hanging bush, a shelving stone, the little stone chat
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  Speaker 1: dwells alone or near his brother of the wind, among
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  Speaker 1: the foremost two begin his pretty love songs, tinkling sound
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and rest low seated on the ground, not heeders of
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  Speaker 1: the winding paths that leads him through the secret grass
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: bishop Chant, the large sung loud. The music at his
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: heart had called him early upward, straight he went, and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: more in nature's quiet. The merriest pot Sea Turner, How
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: violence came blue love on a day? Wise poets tell
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  Speaker 1: some time in wrangling spent whether the violet should excel
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: or in sweetest scent. But venus, having lost the day,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: poor girls, she fell on you and beat ye. So
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: with some dare say, have blowsed it? Make you blue? Herrick,
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  Speaker 1: April fourteenth, First Cuckoo Day, Sussex. The former times shrubs.
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  Speaker 1: Your labors used to give up work for the rest
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: of the day when they heard the first note of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the cuckoo. There is an old superstition at where one
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  Speaker 1: hears the cuckoo first hair, one will spend most of
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the year use make of maystree. This hath been said
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  Speaker 1: all way, But all is not all way, as all
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  Speaker 1: men who say in April the cuckoo can sing her
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  Speaker 1: song by vote in June. Of June she cannot sing
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: a note at first cuckoo cuckoo sings? Still can she do?
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  Speaker 1: At last? Cook?
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  Speaker 4: Cook?
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  Speaker 1: Cook? Six cooks two want coo? John Heywood fifteen eighty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the cuckoo. Hail beauteous stranger of the grove, our
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: messenger of spring. Now heaven repairs. I've worel seats and woods.
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  Speaker 1: I welcome sing what time the day? If you decks
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  Speaker 1: the green they certain voice we hear hassaur star to
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  Speaker 1: guide I path or mark the role in year. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Bruce cuckoo, cuckoo, The first we've heard cockoo, cuckoo. God
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  Speaker 1: bless a bird scarce. Time to take his breath, and
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  Speaker 1: now cuckoo, He's safe. Cuckoo, cuckoo. Free, cheers and let
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  Speaker 1: the welkin ring. He has not folded wings since he
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  Speaker 1: our cheers, Tea Brown. April fifteenth, first swallow Day, Sussex.
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  Speaker 1: He comes, he comes. He loves to bear soft sunny
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  Speaker 1: hours and seasons fair. The swallow heather comes to rest, disabled,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: swing and snowy breast. April and May, the keys of
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the year Spanish, The first Sunday after Easter settles the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: weather for the whole summer. Sweden. The rippling smile of
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the April rain Austin the cold April, the barn will fill,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: although it rained for a lot of way that I
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was we in pot plank, Your tapers when you will,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: they won't come up before April. Wilts when there are
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: many more swifts and swallows in the spring, Expect a
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: hot and dry summer. April cold, with dropping rain, wind,
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  Speaker 1: willows and lilac springs again, the whistle of returning birds
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  Speaker 1: and trumpet lowing off the herds. I met Queen's springing,
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  Speaker 1: a hanger that slopes to the river Gray. They're stream
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the thrushes, sang her, But she came herself today. Boardylan,
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  Speaker 1: when the slow tree is as white as a sheet,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: sow your barley, whether it be dry or wet. As
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: yet but single the bluebells with the grasses mingled, But
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: soon ere as you're will be scrolled upon the primrose
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: cloth of gold. Aostin April, pride of murmuring winds of
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: spring that beneath the winnowed air, trapped with subtle nets
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  Speaker 1: and sweet Flora's feet. Flora's feet, the fleet and fair
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: billow hark. The hours are softly calling, bidding spring the rise.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: To listen to the raindrops falling from the cloudy skies,
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  Speaker 1: to Earth's weary voices, louder every day, bidding her no
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  Speaker 1: longer linger on her charmed way, but hastened to a
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: task of beauty, scarcely yet begune. By the first bright
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  Speaker 1: day of summer, it should all be done, Aa Proctor
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  Speaker 1: to the blackbird, golden bill, golden bill, low the peep
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  Speaker 1: of day. All the air is cool and still. From
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the elm tree on the hill chant away, while the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: moon drops down the west like Diamont upon her nest,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and the stars before the sun knelt like snowflakes. One
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: by one, Let die loud and welcome lay pour along
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: few notes, but strong, Montgomery fled are the frosts, and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: now the fields appear we clothed in fresh and verdant
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: dight ford are the snows, And now the lusty spring
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: gives to each mead and eats enamonin the palms put
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: forth their gems, and every tree now swaggers in an
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: heavy gallantry. Herrick, ye who have olt unseen springs, mornings,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: miles and soul, and living in green, say, did you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: give the thrilling transport way? Did your eye brighten when
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: your lam's at play leaped? Or your path with animated pride?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Or grays in merry clusters by your side bluefield, when
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: in the spring the gay southwester wakes and rupid gas
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: now hide now clears the sun around each green branch
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: of fitful glimmering shakes, and through the lawn and flowery
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: thickets run tossed out the shadow winter splendid brief, there's
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: still the shivers of the yonderleaf ft oil. April. Winter
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  Speaker 1: is quite forced here, and logs up underground. Does every
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: sense have several objects? Trees have got their heads, the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: fields their coats. That now the shining needs to boast
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: of ponts livy, and the rose, and every flower dof
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: laugh as zephyr blows. The seas are now more evil
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  Speaker 1: than the land. The rivers run as smooth by his hand,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: only their heads are crisped by his stroke. Ben Jonson
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  Speaker 1: of gardens in April follow the double white violet, the wallflower,
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  Speaker 1: the stock gillyflower, the cowslip flower, de lease, and lilies
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: of all nature's rosmary flowers, the chute lepper, the double pione,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the pale daffodil, the French honeysuckle, the cherry tree in blossom,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the dam, the scene, the plum trees in blossom, the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: white fawn in leather, lilac tree, bacon, the primrose, lady
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of the spring. The lovely flowers at first off show
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: her face, whose worthy praise that pretty birds do? Sing?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Whose present sweet? The winter's cold off chase almond blossom,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: blossom of the almond trees, April's gift to April's bees,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairly stortling come in when
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: no flower wrecks there trust the cruel outer air, when
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the royal kincop bowl Dar's not done this float of gold,
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  Speaker 1: and the dirty blackthorn spray keeps his silver for the
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  Speaker 1: may coming, when though flowerets would save thy lowly sisterhood.
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  Speaker 1: Early violets blue and white, dying for their love of
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  Speaker 1: light edwin on. There is a rapturous movement, a green
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  Speaker 1: growing among the hills and valleys once again, and silent
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  Speaker 1: rivers of the light are flowing into the hearts of men.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: There is a purple weaving on the heather. Night drops
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  Speaker 1: down starry gold upon the firs. Wild rivers and wild
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: birds sing songs together. Dead nature breaths and stirs. Trench April,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the hawthorn, and the egglantine, purple woodbind streaked pink and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: lily cop and rows and time a major rum are
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: spreading where thou art treading, and their sweet eyes for
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the young clothes. The little nightingale sits singing eye on
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: lee spray, and in her fitful, strained off run a
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: thousands and a thousand changes with voiced ranges through every
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: sweeter fishop below, the ballad singers and the true a doors,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the street musicians of the heavenly city, the birds who
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  Speaker 1: make sweet music for us all in our dark hours,
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  Speaker 1: as David did for Saul. The flush of carols at
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the dawn of day from the green steeples of the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: piney wood, linet and meadow lark, and all the frong dwellingness,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and have the gift of song, longfellow, the lark that
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: shuns on feet bowels to build her humble nest by
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: silent in the field. But if the promise of a
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: cloudness day Aurora smiling bids her rise and play the street,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: she shows twas not for want of voice or power
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  Speaker 1: to climb. She made so low with choice singing. The
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: mount airy rings are stretched towards Heaven, as if from
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: heaven a voice she fetched. Waller Lark song six twy twye.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a shoemaker in all the world can make
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: a shoe for me? Why so? Why so? Because my
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: heels as long as my tongue. Sweet April, smiling through
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  Speaker 1: a tears, shakes rain drops from her hair and disappears.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter four. Recording by Wandering Walker.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter five of a Medley of weather Lore. This is
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  Speaker 5: A Medley of weather Loore by M. E. S. Wright.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter five May ancient Cornish name miss me flowery Month,
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  Speaker 5: jewel for the month. Emerald discovers false friends lo the
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: young month comes all smiling up this way. The Irish
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: say that fire and salts are the two most sacred
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: things given to man, and if you give them away
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: on May day, you give away your luck for the year.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: The fair maid who the first of May goes to
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: the fields at break of day and washes in dew
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: from the hawthorn tree will ever after handsome be It
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: is unlucky to go on the water the first Monday
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: in May. Irish saying, whoever is ill in the month
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: of May will for the rest of the year be
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: healthy and gay. Leave cropping from May till Michaelmas day
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: the last year's leaf. Its time is brief upon the
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: beech and spray. The green bud springs. The young bird sings,
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: old leaf, Make room for May begone, fly away, Make
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: room for May, oh, green bud, Smile on me awhile o,
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: young bird, Let me stay. What joy have we old
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: leaf in thee make room, make room for May begone,
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: fly away, make room for May. Henry Taylor, there are
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: twelve months in all the year, as I hear many say,
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: But the merriest month in all the year is the
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: merry month of May. They who bathe in May will
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: soon be laid in clay. They who bathe in June
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: will sing another tune. Yorkshire. Come listen a while to
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: what we shall say concerning the season, the month we
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: call May. For the flowers they are springing, and the
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: birds they do sing, and the baziers auriculas are sweet.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: In the morning of May, when the trees are in
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: bloom and the meadows are green, the sweet smiling cowslips
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: are plain to be seen, the sweet ties of nature
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: which we plainly do see. For the baisures are sweet
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: in the morning of May Lancashire, summer is near, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: buttercups blow, and sunshine, glimmers aloft and winds playtoons which
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: merrily flow, though in melody, mellow and soft. Then sing
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: the song of the green springtime, the season of promise
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: and bloom, when buds have birth, and the gladdened earth
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: awakes from her wintry tomb hog flowery May, from her
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: green lapth rose, the yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: Milton of gardens. In May and June come pinks of
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: all sorts, especially the blush pink roses of all kinds
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: except the musk, which comes later, honeysuckles, strawberries, boogloss, columbine,
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: the French marigold, flos, africanus, cherry tree and fruit ribes,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: figs in fruit, rasps, bine flowers, lavender and flowers, the
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: sweet saturn orchis with the white flower Herba, muscaria, grape, hyacinth,
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: Lilum convalium, the apple tree in blossom, bacon and lovely morn.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: So still, so very still, it hardly seems a growing
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: day of spring, though all the odorous buds are blossoming,
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: and the small and birds were glad and shrill some
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: hours ago. But now the woodland rill murmurs along the
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  Speaker 5: only vocal thing save when the wee wren flits with
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  Speaker 5: stealthy wing and cons by fits and bits her evening trill.
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  Speaker 5: Hartley Coleridge. If you sweep the house with blossom broom
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: in may, you are sure to sweep the head of
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  Speaker 5: the house away. Come out of doors, Tis spring, Tis
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: May the trees be green, the fields be gay, the
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: weather warm. The winter blast, with all his train of clouds,
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: is past, mother of blossoms, and of all that's fair
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: field from spring to fall. The cuckoo over white wave
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: seas do come to sing in thy green trees, and
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: butterflies in giddy flight do gleam the most by thy
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: gay light. W barnes all the land and flowery sks
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: weares beneath a broad and equal blowing wind smelts of
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: the coming summer. As one large cloud drew downward, But
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: all else of heaven was pure up to the sun,
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: and may from birge to verge. Tennyson, Hush, Hush, The
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: nightingale begins to sing and stops as ill contented with
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: her note, then breaks out from the bush with hurried wing,
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: restless and passionate. She tunes her throat, laments awhile in
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: wavering trills, and then ploods with a stream of sweetness
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: all the glen jean Ingelow. Dark winter is waning, bright
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: summer is raining. The world is regaining its beauty.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: In May.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: The wild woods are ringing with birds sweetly singing, where
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: dewdrops are clinging to flower it and spray. The sunshine
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: entrances my heart when it dances and glimmers and glances
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: through greenwood so gay from Celtic lyre Old may Day,
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: May eleventh, on what a may day? What a deer
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  Speaker 5: may day?
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  Speaker 6: Feel?
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  Speaker 5: What a breeze? Love undulates ore us meadow and trees.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: Love glisten before us. Light in all showers falls from
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: the flowers. Hear how they ask us come and sit down?
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: From Venetian barrati.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Old.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: May day is the usual time for turning out cattle
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: into the pastures, though frequently then very bare of grass hone.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: The three most unpopular saints in the calendar are pancraceous, sorbaceous,
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: and bonifacious, known both in Germany and Austria as the
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: quote three Icemen, and during May twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: many gardeners keep nightly watch and light outdoor fires. Who
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  Speaker 5: shears his sheep before Saint Gervatius or servacious day loves
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: more his wool than his sheep. When the corn is
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: over the crow's back, the frost is over cheshure, go
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: and look at oats. In May, you will see them
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: blown away. Go and look again. In June you will
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: sing another tune. The oak before the ash, prepare your
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: summer sash, the ash before the oak, Prepare your summer cloak. Dorset,
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: A windy May makes a fair year. Cut thistles in
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: May they grow in a day. Cut thistles in June.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: That is too soon. Cut thistles in July, then they
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: will die. In the middle of May comes the tail
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: of winter.
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  Speaker 3: France.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: When passing o'er the streamlet, when fragrant morn in May,
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: the meadows wet with dewdrops shone bright at dawn of day,
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: the crimson breasted robin was pouring forth his lay. The
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: cuckoo's note of gladness arose from scented spray. The mavis
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: warbles loudly from yonder leafy tree. The w rennel joins
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: the chorus and chirps aloud with glee. The linnet is
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: preparing her cheerfulness to show, while black cocks greet their
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: partners with cooing soft and low from Celtic lyre May's warm, slow,
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: yellow moonlit summer nights. Among East Coast folk, there is
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: a pretty belief, very wildly held that in May, when
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  Speaker 5: the sea fowler hatching out on the sultings, Providence checks
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  Speaker 5: the spring tides so that they do not rise high
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  Speaker 5: enough to interfere with the birds. These they call by
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  Speaker 5: the appropriate name of quote bird tides unquote. The linnet's warble,
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  Speaker 5: sinking toward a close hints to the thrush, tis time
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  Speaker 5: for their repose. The shrill voiced thrush is heedless, and
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: again the monitor revives his own sweet strain. But both
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  Speaker 5: will soon be mastered, and the copes be left as
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  Speaker 5: silent as the mountain tops ere. Some commanding star dismissed
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  Speaker 5: to rest the throng of rooks that now from twig
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  Speaker 5: or nest after a steady flight on home bound wings
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  Speaker 5: and a last game of mazy hoverings around their ancient grove,
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  Speaker 5: with cawing noise, disturbed the liquid music's equipoise. Wordsworth, The
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  Speaker 5: starlings are come and marry May and June, and the whitethorn,
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  Speaker 5: and the hay, and the violet, and then the rose,
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  Speaker 5: and all sweet things are coming. He that would live
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  Speaker 5: for aye must eat sage and May. A dry May
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  Speaker 5: and a dripping June brings all things into tune. Bedford, hawthorn,
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  Speaker 5: bloom and elder flowers will fill a house with evil powers. Warwick,
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  Speaker 5: the Simplers, seventeenth century. Here's penny royal and marigolds. Come
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  Speaker 5: buy my nettletops. Here's watercress and scurvy grass. Come buy
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  Speaker 5: my stage of virtue. Ho Come buy my wormwood and mugwort.
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  Speaker 5: Here's all fine herbs of every sort. Here's southern wood
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: that's very good, dandelion and house hears, dragon's tongue, and
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: wood sorrel with bear's foot and wharhound. Lazy cattle wading
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: in the water where the ripples dimple round the buttercups
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: of gold, whitcomb riley. When the dimpled water slippeth full
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: of laughter on its way, and her wing the wagtail
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: dippeth running by the brink at play. When the poplar
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: leaves a tremble, turn their edges to the light, and
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: the far of clouds resemble vales of gauze most clear
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: and white, and the sunbeams fall and flutter woodland, moss
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: and branches brown, and the glossy finch's chatter up and down,
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: up and down, though the heart be not attending, having
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: music of her own on the grass through meadows, wending
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: it is sweet to walk alone, jeane inglow moonwart. There
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: is an herb, some say, whose virtues such in the
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: pasture only with a touch unshods, the new shod steed withers.
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  Speaker 5: Woodpigeon coo pie coo, Me and my poor too, two
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: sticks across and a little bit of moss, and it
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: will do do do, knots the pigeon never knoweth woe
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: until a benting it doth go old couplet. If you
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: scare the flycatcher away, no good luck will with you.
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  Speaker 1: Stay.
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  Speaker 5: Somerset, May twenty ninth, Jack Bob Day, Westmoreland. May thou
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: month of rosy beauty month when pleasure is a duty.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: Month of maids that milk the kine bosom rich and
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: breath divine month of bees and month of flowers, month
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  Speaker 5: of blossom laden bowers, month of little hands with daisies,
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  Speaker 5: lover's love and poet's praises, Oh thou marry month complete May,
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  Speaker 5: thy very name is sweet Lee Hunt. When clamor that
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: doves in the lindens keep mingles with musical flash of
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: the waar, where drowned green tresses of crow's foot creep
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: then comes in the sweet of the year, when big
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: trout late in the twilight leap, when the cuckoo clamareth
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: far and near, when glittering scythes in the hayfield reap
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: then comes in the sweet of the year, Andrew Lang, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: come quickly show thee soon come at once with all
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: thy noon, manly, joyous gipsy June Lee Hunt. End of
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  Speaker 5: chapter five.
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  Speaker 7: Chapter six of A Medlay of weather Lore. This is
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  Speaker 7: A Medlay of Weather Lore by M. E. S. Wright,
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  Speaker 7: Chapter six June ancient Cornish name miss afound summer month
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  Speaker 7: or head of summer dwell for the month a goot
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  Speaker 7: long life, health and prosperity. When the white pigs begin
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: to appear, then is the time your sheep to shear
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: old rhyme over the meadow in sunshine and shadow. The
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  Speaker 7: meadow larks trill, and the bumblebees drone whitcomb riley. If
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  Speaker 7: it raineth on the eighth of June, a wet harvest
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  Speaker 7: men will see the broom having plenty of blossoms o'er
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  Speaker 7: the walnut tree, as a sign of a fruitful year
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  Speaker 7: of corn. A calm June puts the farmer in tune.
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  Speaker 7: A dripping June puts all things in tune. Come away
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  Speaker 7: the sunny hours woo the defarge of founts and bowers
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  Speaker 7: o'er the very waters now in their play flowers are
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  Speaker 7: shedding beauties glow. Come away, where the lilies tender gleam
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: quivers on the glancing stream. Come away, while the air
• 51:41
  Speaker 7: is filled with sound, soft and sultry, and profound murmurs
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: through the shadowy grass, lightly stray, faint winds whisper as
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: they pass. Come away, where the bees, deep music swells
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: from the trembling foxglove bells. Come away, missus heman's pansies pansies.
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  Speaker 7: How I love you pansies, jaunty faced, laughing liped, and
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  Speaker 7: dewy eyed with glee. Wit come rilegh. The flower beds
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  Speaker 7: all were liberal of delight, roses in heaps. Were there
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  Speaker 7: both red and white lilies, angelical and gorgeous glooms of wallflowers,
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  Speaker 7: and blue hyacinths, and blooms hanging thick clusters from light bows.
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  Speaker 7: In short, all the sweet cups to which the bees
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: resort lay hunt. Oh, the rosy month of June. I
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: hail as summer's green. The hills and valleys sing in joy,
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: and all the woods are green, and streamlets flow in
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: gladsome song. The birds are all in tune, and nature
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  Speaker 7: smiles in summer's pride in the rosy month of June.
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: The sixth month of the year is the month of June.
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  Speaker 7: When the weather's too hot to be borne. The master
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  Speaker 7: dot say, as he goes on his way to morrow,
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  Speaker 7: my sheep shall be shorn summerset. Here the rose buds
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: in June, and the violets are blowing. The small birds
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: they warble from every green bow. Here, the pink and
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: the lily, and the daffodown dilly to adorn and perfume.
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  Speaker 7: The sweet meadows in June tis all before the plow.
• 53:41
  Speaker 7: The fat oxen goes slow, but the lads and lasses do.
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: The sheep shearing go Sussex song below the hills and
• 53:52
  Speaker 7: ash below the ash white elder flowers do blow. Below
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  Speaker 7: the elder is a bed or robin. Hood's a blushing red.
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  Speaker 7: And there we nunch us all a spread the hay
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: meekers we each a cup or drink. Do smile to zee,
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  Speaker 7: hold up. The rain and sky are clearing w barnes
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  Speaker 7: by fragrant gales and frolic play. The floating corn's green
• 54:20
  Speaker 7: waves are fanned, and all above broad summer day, and
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: all below bright summer land, Ohen Meredith. The sweet west
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: wind is flying over the purple sea, and the amber
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: daylight dying on roadway, hill and tree. The cattle bells
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: are ringing among the slanting downs, and children's voice flinging
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: God echoes through the towns. Oh summer day, so soon away.
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  Speaker 7: The happy hearted sigh and say sweet is thy light,
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: and sad thy flight, and sad the word good night,
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  Speaker 7: good night. The worn white clouds are trailing low o'er
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  Speaker 7: the level plain and the wind brings with its wailing
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  Speaker 7: the chill of the coming rain. Fringed by the faded heather,
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: White pools of water lie, and birds and leaves together
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: whirl through the evening sky. Haste thee away o winter day.
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  Speaker 7: The wary hearted weep and say sad as thy light,
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  Speaker 7: and slow, thy flight, and sweet the words good night,
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  Speaker 7: good night. Twas one of the charm days when the
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  Speaker 7: genius of God doth flow. The wind may alter twenty ways.
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: A tempest cannot blow. It may blow north it still
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  Speaker 7: is warm, or south it still is clear, or east
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: it smells like a clover farm. Or west now thunder
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  Speaker 7: fear immersin where wood binds wonder and the wallflower pushes
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  Speaker 7: its way alone, and where in wafts of fragrance, sweet
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: briar bushes make themselves known with banks of violets for
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  Speaker 7: southern breezes to seek and find, and trestled Jessamine that
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  Speaker 7: trembles in the summer wind, where clove carnations overgrow the
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  Speaker 7: places where they were set, and mist like in the
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  Speaker 7: intervening spaces, creeps minnow net Saint Barnaba's Day Old Style
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  Speaker 7: June twenty first, Barnaby, Bright Barnaby bright, the longest day
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  Speaker 7: and the shortest night. The ignorant believe that any person
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  Speaker 7: fasting on Midsummer Eve and sitting in the church porch
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  Speaker 7: will at midnight see the spirits of the persons of
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  Speaker 7: that parish who will die that year. Come and knock
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  Speaker 7: at the church door, in the order and succession in
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  Speaker 7: which they will die. Hone when Mackerel sees it from
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  Speaker 7: the seas, John Baptist brings grass, beef and peas Tusser
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  Speaker 7: fifteen seventy. Then doth the joyful feast of John the
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  Speaker 7: Baptist take his turn? When bonfires grate with lofty flame
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  Speaker 7: in every town, doughburn, and young men round about with maids,
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  Speaker 7: dough dants, in every street with garlands wroth of Motherworth,
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  Speaker 7: or else with verveine, sweet barnaby googe. Twas Midsummer, the
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  Speaker 7: warm earth teemed with flowers, the king cup's gold, the
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  Speaker 7: perfumed clover mid, the crested grass, the plantains rearing high
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  Speaker 7: their flowery crowns above, the daisy coverts overhead, the hawthorns
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  Speaker 7: white and rose bent with bluem, the broad fanned chestnuts
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  Speaker 7: spiked with frequent flowers, and white gold hearted lilies on
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  Speaker 7: the stream. Lewis Morris, Old Kentish song. My one man,
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  Speaker 7: my two men, will mow me down the meadow. My
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  Speaker 7: three men, my foemen, will carry away together my five men,
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  Speaker 7: my six men, and there aint no more. Will mow
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  Speaker 7: me hay, and carry away and mow me down the meadow.
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  Speaker 7: Soon will high midsummer pumps come on? Soon? Will the
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  Speaker 7: mos carnation break and swell?
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  Speaker 1: Soon?
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  Speaker 7: Shall we have gold dusted snap dragon? Sweet William with
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  Speaker 7: his homely cotted smell and stalks In a fragrant blow
• 58:50
  Speaker 7: Matthew Arnold signs of rain. The hollow winds begin to blow.
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  Speaker 7: The clouds look black, the glass is low. The suit
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  Speaker 7: falls down. The spaniels sleep. The spiders from the cobwebs creep.
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  Speaker 7: Last night the sun went pale to bed. The moon
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  Speaker 7: in halo hid her head. The boding shepherd, he's a
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  Speaker 7: sigh for see. A rainbow spans the sky. The walls
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  Speaker 7: are damp. The ditches smell closed as the pink eyed
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  Speaker 7: pimpernel hark how the chairs and tables crack. Old Betty's
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  Speaker 7: joints are on the rack. Loud quack the ducks. The
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  Speaker 7: peacock's cry the distant hills are looking nigh. How restless
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  Speaker 7: are the snorting swine. The busy flies disturb the kine
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: lower o'er the grass, the swallow wings the cricket too,
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: how loud it seems. Puss on the hearth with velvet paws,
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  Speaker 7: sits smoothing o'er her whiskered jaws through the clear stream.
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  Speaker 7: The fishes rise and nimbly catch them cautious flies. The
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  Speaker 7: sheep are seen at early light cropping the meads with
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  Speaker 7: eager bite. Though June the air is cold and chill.
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  Speaker 7: The mellow blackbird's voices still. The blow worms numerous and bright,
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  Speaker 7: illumed in the dewy dell. Last night at dusk, the
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  Speaker 7: squalid toad was seen hopping crawling o'er the green. The
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 7: frog has lost his yellow vest, and in a dingy
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: suit is dressed. The leech, disturbed, is newly risen quite
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 7: to the summit of his prison. The whirling winds, the
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: dust obeys, and in the rapid eddy place, my dog,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 7: so altered in his taste, quits mutton bones on grass
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 7: to feast and see yon rooks. How odd their flight
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: they imitate the gliding kite or seem precipitate to fall,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: as if they felt the pea using ball twill surely rain.
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  Speaker 7: I see with sorrow our jaunt must be put off
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  Speaker 7: to morrow. An excuse for not accepting the invitation of
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  Speaker 7: a friend to make a country excursion. Edward Jenner. Pond
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  Speaker 7: Weed sinks before rain. Fur cones close for wet, open
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  Speaker 7: for fine weather. Cows and sheeps lie down before rain
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  Speaker 7: to keep a dry place to lie on. When the
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  Speaker 7: clouds go up the hill, they'll send down water to
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  Speaker 7: turn a mill Hans. If nights tree due less, there
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  Speaker 7: be till rain. You're sure to see. If bees stay
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  Speaker 7: at home, rain will soon come. If they fly away,
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  Speaker 7: fine will be the day sixteen fifty six. If the
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  Speaker 7: down flieth off Colt's foot, Dandelion and pistols. When there
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  Speaker 7: is no wind, it is a sign of rain. When
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  Speaker 7: a cock drinks in summer, it will rain a little
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  Speaker 7: after Italy. When sheep begin to go up the mountains,
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  Speaker 7: shepherds say it will be fine weather. Seagull seagulls sit
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  Speaker 7: on the sand. It's never good weather when you're on
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  Speaker 7: the land. Pimpernell. Pimpernel, tell me true whether the weather
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  Speaker 7: be fine or no. No, heart can think. No tongue
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  Speaker 7: can tell the virtues of the pimpernel. When rain causes
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  Speaker 7: bubbles to rise in water it falls upon, the shower
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  Speaker 7: will last long Essex, A saturday's rainbow a week's rotten weather.
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  Speaker 7: South Ireland. A sunshiny shower never lasts half an hour Bedford.
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  Speaker 7: When oxen do lick themselves against the hair, it betokeneth
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  Speaker 7: rain to follow shortly after be do take comfort in
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  Speaker 7: a moist air, and it maketh them eat their meat better.
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  Speaker 7: And therefore sheep will get up betimes in the morning
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: to feed against s rain, and cattle and deer and
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: connais will feed hard before rain, and a hyphro will
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  Speaker 7: put up his nose and snuff in the air against
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  Speaker 7: rain worms Bermin et cetera. Likewise, do foreshe rain, for
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  Speaker 7: earthworms will come forth, and moles will cast up more,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: and flees bite more against strain. Becon to talk of
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  Speaker 7: the weather is nothing but folly. For when it rains
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 7: on the hill, the sun shines in the valley. Mare's tails,
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  Speaker 7: and Mackarel's sky not long wet, nor not long dry. Berkshire.
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  Speaker 7: When the wind veers against the sun, trust it not
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  Speaker 7: for back, twill run rainbow to windward, foul fall to day,
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  Speaker 7: rainbow to leeward. Damp runs away. When sheep do huddle
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 7: by tree and bush. Bad weather is coming, with wind
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  Speaker 7: and slush. A rainbow at morn, put your hook in
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  Speaker 7: the corn, a rainbow at eve, put your head in
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 7: the sheath cornwall, clouds without rain in summer, indicaid wind,
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  Speaker 7: Saturday's moon, Sunday scene the foulest weather there ever hath been.
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  Speaker 7: When the new moon comes in at midnight or within
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  Speaker 7: thirty minutes before or after the following month will be fine.
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  Speaker 7: Saturday change and Sunday full is always wet and always
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: wool Northen's. If mists in the new moon, rain in
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  Speaker 7: the old. If mists in the old moon, rain in
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  Speaker 7: the new A fog and a small moon bring an
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  Speaker 7: easterly wind soon cornwall. If Saturday's moon comes once in
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  Speaker 7: seven years, it comes too soon. Full moon. The nearer
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  Speaker 7: to twelve in the afternoon, the drier the moon. The
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  Speaker 7: nearer to twelve in the forenoon, the wetter the moon. Herefore,
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  Speaker 7: when the moon is at the full mushrooms, you may
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  Speaker 7: freely pull. But when the moon is on the wane,
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  Speaker 7: wait where you think to pluck again. The moon and
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  Speaker 7: the weather may change together, but change of the moon
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  Speaker 7: does not change the weather. If we'd no moon at all,
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  Speaker 7: and that may seem strange, we still should have a
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  Speaker 7: weather that's subject to change. Midsummer fairies, the pastoral cowslips
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 7: are our little pets, and daisy stars whose firmament is
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 7: green pansies, and those veiled nuns meek violence, sighing to
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  Speaker 7: that warm world from which they scream. And golden daffodils
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: plucked from maize queen, and lovely harebells quaking on the heap,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 7: and hyacinth long since a fair yute scene whose tuneful
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 7: voice turned fragrance in his breath, kissed by sads, a
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  Speaker 7: fur guilty of his death good. The sun has long
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 7: been set, the stars are out by twos and threes,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 7: The little birds are piping. Yet among the bushes and
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 7: the trees there's a cuckoo, and one or two thrushes,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 7: and a far off wind that rushes, and a sound
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: of water that gushes, and the cuckoo's sovereign cry fills
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 7: all the hollow of the sky. Who would go parading
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: in London and masquerading on such a night in June,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 7: with the beautiful soft half moon, and all these innocent blisses.
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  Speaker 7: On such a night as this is Wordsworth. When the
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  Speaker 7: winds in the south the rains in its mouth, no
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: weather is ill if the wind be still old, saying
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  Speaker 7: all through the sultry hours of June, from morning blithe
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  Speaker 7: to golden noon, until the star of evening climbs the
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  Speaker 7: gray blue east. A world too soon, there sings a
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 7: thrush within the limes. God's poet, hid in foliage green,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 7: sings endless songs, himself unseen right seldom come his silent
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 7: times linger ye summer hours serene, sing on dear thrush
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 7: amid the limes. Mortimer Collins, A wet June makes a
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  Speaker 7: dry September Cornwall end of chapter.
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  Speaker 3: Six, Chapter seven of Amedley of weather Lore. This is
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  Speaker 3: Chapter seven July. Ancient Cornish name miscretham head of the
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: summer month, jewel for the month Ruby discovers poison. If
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  Speaker 3: the first of July be rainy weather, twill rain more
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  Speaker 3: or less for four weeks together. In my nostrils the
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  Speaker 3: summer wind blows the exquisite scent of the rose. Oh
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: for the golden, golden wind, breaking the buds as it goes,
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  Speaker 3: breaking the buds and bending the grass, and spilling the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: scent of the rose. Aldrich, I sometimes think that never
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  Speaker 3: blows so red the rose as were some buried Caesar bled,
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  Speaker 3: that every hyacinth the garden wears dropped in its lap
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  Speaker 3: from some once lovely head. Oh Mark, I am of
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  Speaker 3: gardens in July come gilliflowers of all varieties, musk roses,
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  Speaker 3: the lime tree and blossom, early pears and plums in
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  Speaker 3: fruit Jenating's quadlins bacon, a tuft of evening primroses, or
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  Speaker 3: which the mind may hover till it dozes, or which
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: it well might take a pleasant sleep, But that is
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: till ever startled by the leap of buds into ripe
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: flowers keats. Now the glories of the year may be viewed.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: The best and the earth doth now appear in her
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: fairest garments, dressed sweetly smelling. Plants and flowers do perfume,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: the garden, bowers, hill and valley, wood and field mixed
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: with pleasure prophets yield George withers blue flags, yellow flags,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: flags all freckled, Which will you take yellow blue speckled,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: Take what you will speckled blue yellow. Each in his
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: way has not a fellow. See rossetti swelling downs, where
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: sweet air stirs blue hairbells lightly, and where prickly furzebuds,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: lavish gold keats, mouse ear, or scorpion grass. Any manner
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: of way ministered to horses brings this help unto them,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: that they cannot be hurt while the smith is showing
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: of them. Therefore it is called off many. Herba clavorum,
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  Speaker 3: the herb of nails, old saying before sixteen sixty. Sweet
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: is the rose, but grows upon a brayer. Sweet is
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: the juniper, but sharp his bough. Sweet is the egglantine,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: but priketh near. Sweet is the fur bloom, but his
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: branch is rough. Sweet is the cypress, but his rind
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: is tough. Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: Sweet is the broom flower, but yet sour enough. And
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: sweet is molly, but his root is ill. So every
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: sweet with sour is tempered still that maketh it the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: coveted be more for easy things that may be got
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: at will, All sorts of men do set But little
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: store Spencer, where the copsewood is the greenest, where the
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: fountain glistens on sheenest, where the morning dew lies longest.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: There the lady fern grows strongest. Walter Scott fair days
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: or dawns deceitful. Fair was the dawn, And but even
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: now the skies showed like to cream, inspired with strawberries.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: But on a sudden all was changed and gone that
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: smiled in that first sweet complexion. Then thunderclaps and lightning
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: did conspire to tear the world or set it all
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: on fire. What trust to things below, when, as we
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: see as men, the heavens have their hypocrisy. Herrick Summer
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: in the penniless can stir the frozen prayer. Summer sends
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: a golden glow through needy bones. Awhile bright and breezy
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: is the dawn, and soft the balmy air. Summer tis
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: the breath of heaven. Tis God's own gracious smile From
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: Victor Hugo. The nightingale and the cuckoo both grow hoarse
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: at the rising of Sirius the dog star not rend off,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: but cut off ripe bean with a knife, for hindering
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: stock of her vegetative life. So gather the lowest, and
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: leaving the top, shall teach thee a trick for to
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: double thy crop. Tusser. A shower of rain in July,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: when the corn begins to fill, is worth a plow
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: of oxen, And all belongs their till Saint Swithin July
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: fifteenth Saint Swithin's day. If thou dost rain for forty days,
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  Speaker 3: it will remain Saint Swithin's day. If thou be fair
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: for forty days till rain. No mayr Scotland, Saint Swithin
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  Speaker 3: christens the apples, no tempest good July. Lest the corn
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: look ruelly while wormwood has seed, Get a handful or
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  Speaker 3: twain to save against march, to make flea to refrain.
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  Speaker 3: Where chamber is sweeping and wormwood is strown, no flea
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  Speaker 3: for his life. Dear abide to be known the flower girl.
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  Speaker 3: One come by, Come by my mystic flowers, all ranged
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: with due consideration, and cold in fancies, fairy bowers to
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  Speaker 3: suit each age and every station. Two for those who
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: late in life would tarry. I've snowdrops, winter's children cold.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: And those who seek for wealth to marry may buy
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: the flaunting marigold. Three I've ragwart ragged robins, two cheap
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: flowers for those of low condition. For bachelor's I've button
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: blue and crown imperials for ambition. Four for sportsman Keene
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: who ranged the lee. I pheasant's eye and sprigs of heather.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: For courtiers with the supple knee, I've parasites and princes feather.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: Five for thin tall fops, I keep the rush for peasants.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: Still am night shade weeding for rakes, I devil in
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: the bush for sighing strephan's love's lies bleeding. But Ferris
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: blooms affection's hand for constancy and worth, disposes and gladly
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: weaves at your command a wreath of amirates and roses.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: Missus Corbold, London Street, call about two hundred years old.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: Will you buy, lady, buy my sweet blooming lavender. There
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: are sixteen blue branches of penny. Will you buy it once?
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: Will you buy it twice? It makes your clothes smell
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: so very nice. It will scent your pocket handkerchief and
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: it will scent your clothes as well. Now is your time,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: and do not delay. Come and buy your lavender, all
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: fresh cut from Mitchum every day. I do not want change.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: I want the same old and loved things, the same wildflowers,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: the same trees and soft ash green, the turtle doves,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: the blackbirds, the colored yellowhammers, sing, sing, singing, so long
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: as there is light to cast a shadow on the dial.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: For such is the measure of his song. And I
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: want them in the same place. Richard Jeffries Saint James's Day,
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  Speaker 3: New Style, July twenty fifth. Till Saint James's Day be
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: passed and gone, there may be hops, or there may
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  Speaker 3: be none. Hereford to whom the dog star in her train,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: Saint James gives oysters, and Saint swithin rain. Churchill, Oh, golden,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: golden summer. What is it thou hast done? Thou hast
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: chased each vernal roamer with thy fiercely burning sun. Glad
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: was the cuckoo's hail? Where may we find it now?
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: Thou hast driven the nightingale from the waving hawthorn bow.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: Thou hast shrunk the mighty river. Thou hast made the
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: small brook flee, and the light gales faintly quiver through
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: the dark and shadowy tree. W Howitt end of chapter seven.
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  Speaker 6: Chapter eight of A Medley of Weatherlore. This is a
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  Speaker 6: Recording by Brandy J. A Medley of weather Lore by
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  Speaker 6: Ma S. Wright. Chapter eight. Ancient Cornish name miss East
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  Speaker 6: harvest month, jewel for the month sardonyx ensures happiness in marriage.
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  Speaker 6: August first Loaf Mass day day of offering first fruits,
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  Speaker 6: when a loaf was given to the priests in place
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  Speaker 6: of the first fruits at latter lamas i e. Never
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  Speaker 6: the August gold of earth. All things rejoice beneath the sun,
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  Speaker 6: the weeds, the river and the cornfields, and the reeds,
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  Speaker 6: the willow leaves that glanced in the light breeze, and
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  Speaker 6: the firm foliage of the larger trees, shelley of gardens.
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  Speaker 6: In August come plums of all sorts and fruit pears, apricots, birberries, philbirds, muskmelons, monks,
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  Speaker 6: hoods of all color bacon. August first snipe shooting may
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  Speaker 6: begin snipe song. Don't take local name for snipe nipcake.
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  Speaker 6: Don't take, don't take, don't take ghi the lasses, milk
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  Speaker 6: and bread and ghi the latties. Don't take, don't take,
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  Speaker 6: don't take. Scottish Midlands August fifth, Old style Saint James Day,
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  Speaker 6: Oyster Day. Who eats oysters on Saint James Day will
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: never want wheat sways, heavy oats are airy, barley bows,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: a graceful head, short and small shoots up canary. Each
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: of these is someone's bread, bread for man, or bread
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: for beast, or at very least a bird's savory feast
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: see Rosetti. It is always windy, and barley harvests. It
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  Speaker 6: blows off the heads for the poor. On Thursday at three,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: look out and you'll see what Friday will be. No
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 6: weather is ill. If the wind be still for morning rain,
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  Speaker 6: leave not your journey. Never a fishermen med there bee
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 6: if fishes could hear as well as sea tent. If
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 6: the sage tree thrives and grows, the master's not master,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 6: and that he knows Warwick. A garden must be looked
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 6: into and dressed as a body to smell wild time
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  Speaker 6: and renew spirits and energy in long walks under an
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  Speaker 6: august sun. Friday's a day as will have his trick,
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  Speaker 6: the fairest or faullst day. Oh, the wick dry august
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  Speaker 6: and warm doth harvest no harm put in the sickles
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  Speaker 6: and reap, for the morning of harvest is red, and
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  Speaker 6: the long large ranks of corn, colored and clothed as
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  Speaker 6: the morn stand thick in the fields and deep for
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 6: them that faint to be fed swinburn. Summer is purple
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 6: and drowsed with repletion. Now yellow harvests wave on every field,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 6: now bending boughs, the hoary chestnut yield. Now loaded trees
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 6: resign their annual store, and on the ground the mellow
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: fruitage poor beady from Virgil August sixteenth, Saint Roche's Day,
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  Speaker 6: formerly celebrated in England as a general harvest home. Good
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  Speaker 6: husswives in summer will save their own seeds against the
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  Speaker 6: next year, as occasion needs one seed for another to
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  Speaker 6: make an exchange with fellowly neighborhood seemeth not strange tuzser
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  Speaker 6: on one side is a field of drooping oak through
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  Speaker 6: which the poppies show their scarlet coats keats. August twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 6: Saint Bartholomew's Day. If Saint Bartholomew's Day be misty the
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  Speaker 6: morning beginning with the hoar frost, then cold weather will
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  Speaker 6: soon ensue and a sharp winter attended with many biting frosts.
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  Speaker 6: Thomas Passenger, Saint Bartlemy's mantle wipes dry all the tears
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  Speaker 6: that Saint Swithin can cry. Portugal Happy Britannia riches thy
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  Speaker 6: soil and merciful thy climb Thy streams, unfailing in the
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 6: summer's drought, unmatch thy guardian oaks, Thy Valley's float with
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 6: golden waves, and on thy mountain's flocks bleat numberless while
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 6: roving round their sides, bellow. The blackening herds and lusty
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: droves beneath thy meadows glow and rise and quelled against
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  Speaker 6: the mower's Scythe Thompson end of chapter eight. Recording by
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  Speaker 6: Brandy J.
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  Speaker 8: Chapter nine of A Medley of Weatherlore. This is a
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  Speaker 8: A Medley of Weatherlore by M. E. S. Wright, Chapter nine,
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  Speaker 8: September September Ancient Cornish name miguira gala white straw, month
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  Speaker 8: jewel for the month, chrysolite antidote to madness. If the
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  Speaker 8: woodcock had but the partridges thigh, he'd be the best
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 8: bird that ever did fly. If the partridge had but
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  Speaker 8: the woodcock's breast, he'd be the best bird that ever
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  Speaker 8: was dressed. Harvest home. The ground is clear, there's gnar,
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  Speaker 8: an ear of stain, and corn are left out now
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  Speaker 8: or wind to blow, nor rain to drow. Tis all
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  Speaker 8: up safe in barn or mow. There's health to them
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  Speaker 8: that plowed and sowed. There's health to them that reaped
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  Speaker 8: and mowed, and them that had to pitch and load
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  Speaker 8: or tip the rick at harvest home. The happy night,
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  Speaker 8: the merry night, the men's delight, the harvest home w barnes.
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  Speaker 8: We have plowed, we have sowed, we have reaped, we
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  Speaker 8: have mowed, we have brought home every load, hip, hip, hip,
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  Speaker 8: harvest home, luster, harvest toast. Here's a health to the
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 8: barley mow. Here's a health to the man who very
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  Speaker 8: well can both harrow and plow and so oh, when
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  Speaker 8: it is well sown. See it is well mown, both
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  Speaker 8: raked and gravel clean, and a barn to lay it in.
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  Speaker 8: Here's a health to the man who very well can
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  Speaker 8: both rash and fan it clean. Savok tramping after grouse
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  Speaker 8: or partridge through the soft September air, both my pockets
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  Speaker 8: stuffed with cartridge, and my heart devoid of care. September
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  Speaker 8: blows soft till the fruits in the loft of gardens
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 8: in September come grapes, apples, poppies of all colors, peaches, melocotins,
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  Speaker 8: yellow peaches, nectarines, cornelians, wardens, quinces, bacon. Spring was o'er
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  Speaker 8: happy and knew not the reason, and summer dream sadly,
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  Speaker 8: for she thought always ended in her fullness of wealth
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 8: that might not be amended. But this is the harvest
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 8: and the garnering season, and the leaf and the blossom
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  Speaker 8: in the ripe fruit are blended. W mars. A bloom
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  Speaker 8: upon the apple tree when the apples are ripe is
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  Speaker 8: a sure terbination to somebody's life. September dries up wells
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  Speaker 8: or breaks down bridges Portugal, many haws, many sloughs, many
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  Speaker 8: cold toes. When September thirteenth falls on a Friday, the
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  Speaker 8: autumn will be dry and sunny. France, September fifteenth is
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  Speaker 8: said to be fine in six years out of seven.
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  Speaker 8: Onion skin very thin, mild, winter comin in, onion skin
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  Speaker 8: thick and tough, coming winter, cold and rough, sat Strawberry's wife.
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  Speaker 8: I love them for life, Tusser. The barberry restless, and
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  Speaker 8: gooseberry too, look now to be planted as other things do.
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  Speaker 8: The gooseberry, repses and roses, all free with strawberries under them,
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  Speaker 8: trimly agree Tusser. Wild with the winds of September rustled
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  Speaker 8: the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with
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  Speaker 8: the angel longfellow, that mellow season of the year, when
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  Speaker 8: the hot sun singes the yellow leaves till they be
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  Speaker 8: gold and with a broader sphere, the moon looks down
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  Speaker 8: on cerries and her sheaves hood, when the falling waters
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  Speaker 8: utter something mournful on their way, and a parting swallows
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  Speaker 8: flutter taking leave of bank and bray, when the chaffinch
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  Speaker 8: idly sitteth with her mate upon the sheaves, and the
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  Speaker 8: wistful robin flitteth or beds of yellow leaves, when the clouds,
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  Speaker 8: like ghosts that ponder evil fate, float by and frown,
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  Speaker 8: And the listless wind doth wander up and down, up
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  Speaker 8: and down through the fields and fallows, wending. It is
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  Speaker 8: sad to walk alone. Jean Ingelow, Saint Matthew, September twenty first,
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  Speaker 8: Saint Matthew, shut up the bee. The flush of the
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  Speaker 8: landscape is o'er. The brown leaves are shed on the way.
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  Speaker 8: The dye of the lone mountain flower grows wine and
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 8: betokens decay, all silent. The song of the thrush bewildered.
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  Speaker 8: She cowers in the dale. The blackbirds it's lone on
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  Speaker 8: the bush. The fall of the leaf they bewail hog.
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  Speaker 8: Summer is gone on swallows wings, and earth has buried
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  Speaker 8: all her flowers no more. The lark the linnet sings,
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  Speaker 8: but silent, sits in faded bowers. There is a shadow
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  Speaker 8: on the plain of winter. Ere he comes again hood.
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  Speaker 8: The feathers of the willow are half of them grown
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  Speaker 8: yellow above the swelling stream, and ragged are the bushes
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 8: and rusty. Now the rushes and wild, the clouded gleam.
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  Speaker 8: The thistle now is older. I stock begins to molder
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  Speaker 8: his head is white as snow. The branches all are bearer.
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  Speaker 8: The linet's song is rarer. The robin pipeth now Dixon.
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  Speaker 8: Nothing stirs the sunny silence, save the drowsy humming of
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  Speaker 8: the bees round, the rich ripe peaches on the wall,
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  Speaker 8: and the south wind sighing in the trees, and the
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  Speaker 8: dead leaves rustling as they fall, while the swallows one
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  Speaker 8: by one are gathering, all impatient to be on the
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  Speaker 8: wing and to wander from us, seeking there, beloved spring
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  Speaker 8: at a late proctor the garden. What wondrous life is this?
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  Speaker 4: I lead?
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  Speaker 8: Ripe apples drop upon my head, The luscious clusters of
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 8: the vine upon my mouth do crush their wine. The
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 8: nectarine and curious peach into my hands themselves do reach,
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  Speaker 8: stumbling on melons. As I pass ensnared with flowers, I
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  Speaker 8: fall on grass and marvel. Saint Michael's Day, September twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 8: In the serem Missal, Saint Michael is invoked as a
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  Speaker 8: most glorious and warlike prince, chief officer of Paradise, captain
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  Speaker 8: of God's hosts, the receiver of souls, the vanquisher of
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  Speaker 8: evil spirits, and the admirable general from hone. If Michael
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  Speaker 8: must day be fair, the sun will shine much in
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  Speaker 8: the winter, though the wind and northeast will frequently rain
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 8: long and be very sharp and nipping. Thomas Passenger fresh
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  Speaker 8: heiring plenty. Michael brings with fatted crones, old ewes, and
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 8: such old things tusser. When the tenants come to pay
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 8: their quarter's rent, they bring some foul admits summer, a
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 8: dish of fish in lent, at Christmas, a capon at Michaelmas,
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  Speaker 8: a goose, and somewhat else at New Year's tide, for
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  Speaker 8: fear their lease fly loose g gascon geese, now in
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 8: their prime season, are which, if well roasted, are good fair. Yet, however,
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  Speaker 8: friends take heed, how too much on them you feed,
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  Speaker 8: lest when as your tongues run loose your discourse do
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  Speaker 8: smell of goose. For Robin sixteen ninety five, If you
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  Speaker 8: eat goose on Nichelmel's Day, you will never want money
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 8: all the year round old saying the Michaelmas moon rises
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 8: nine nights alike. Soon the moon in the wine gather
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 8: fruit for to last, but winter fruit gather when Michael
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  Speaker 8: is past. Though mickers theeves that love not to buy
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  Speaker 8: nor crave, make some gather sooner else few for to
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  Speaker 8: have tusser. End of section nine. Recording by Todd.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter ten of a medley of weather lore. This is
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  Speaker 4: A medley of weather lore by me s. Wrights, October
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  Speaker 4: ancient Cornish name miss Hedra, watery month, duel opal Hope,
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  Speaker 4: October fourth, Saint Francis and Saint Benedite died twelve twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: Saint Francis and Saint Benedite bless this house from wicked white,
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  Speaker 4: from the nightmare and the goblin that is night. Good
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  Speaker 4: fellow Robin, keep it from all evil spirits, fairies, weasels,
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  Speaker 4: rats and ferrets, from curfew time to the next Prime
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  Speaker 4: William Cartwright, who soweth in rain hath weed to his pain,
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  Speaker 4: but wor shy speed, that soweth ill seed, t sir,
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  Speaker 4: when autumn sad but sunlit, doth appear with his gold
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  Speaker 4: hand gilding the falling leaf, bringing up winter to fulfill
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  Speaker 4: the year, bearing upon his back the ripening sheath, When
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  Speaker 4: all the hills with wooly seed are white. When lightning
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  Speaker 4: fires and gleams do meet from far the sight, When
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  Speaker 4: the fair apple flush'd as even sky doth bend the
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  Speaker 4: tree unto the fertile ground. When juicy pears and berries
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  Speaker 4: of black dye do dance in air and call the
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  Speaker 4: eye around. Then be the even foul or be it fair?
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  Speaker 4: Methinks my heart's delight is stained with some care Chatterton,
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  Speaker 4: there is strange music in the stirring wind when lowers
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  Speaker 4: the autumnal eve, and all alone to the dark woods
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  Speaker 4: called covert thou art gone, whose ancient trees on the
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  Speaker 4: rough slope reclined rock and at times scatter their tresses,
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  Speaker 4: sere w l balls of gardens. In October and beginning
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  Speaker 4: of November comes services, meddlers, bulesses, roses, cuts or removed
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  Speaker 4: to come late, hollyhocks, and such like bacon. See time.
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  Speaker 4: October's gold is dim, the forest rot, the weary rainfall ceaseless,
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  Speaker 4: while the day is wrapped in damp. In mire a
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: village way, the hedgerow leaves are stamped, and all forgot.
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  Speaker 4: The broodless nest sits visible in the thorn autumn among
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 4: her drooping marrigolds weeps all her garnered fields and empty
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 4: folds and dripping orchards, plundered and forlorn, david gray autumn days, yellow, mellow,
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  Speaker 4: ripened days sheltered in a golden coating, or the dreamy,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: listless haze, white and dainty cloudlets, floating winking at the
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 4: blushing trees, and the somber furrowed fallow, smiling at the
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 4: airy ease of the southward flying swallow. Sweet and smiling
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 4: are thy way, beauteous golden autumn days, shivering, quivering, tearful days,
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  Speaker 4: fretful and sadly weeping, dreading still with anxious gaze. Icy
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 4: fetters round thee creeping, or the cheerless withered plain woefully
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: and hoarsely calling, pelting hail and drenching rain on the
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 4: scanty vestments, falling, sad and mournful are thy ways grieving
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 4: wailing autumn day will coralns moan o ye autumn winds.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 4: Summer has fled, the flowers have closed their tender leaves
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 4: and die. Lily's gracious head or low must lie because
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: the gentle summer now is dead. Morn mourn oh autumn winds, lamentum, mourn,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 4: how many half blown buds must close and die hopes
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 4: with the summer born corn all faded lye and leave
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 4: us desolate and earth forlorn A a proctor, Saint Simon
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 4: and Saint Jude's Day, October twenty eighth. It is a
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  Speaker 4: Bedford custom for boys to cry baked pears about the town,
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  Speaker 4: with the following words, who knows what I have got
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  Speaker 4: in our hot pot? Baked wardens all hot? Who knows
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 4: what I have got? October brings the cold weather down
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: when the wind and the rain continue. He nerves the
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 4: limbs that are lazy grown embraces the languid sinew. So
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  Speaker 4: while we have voices and lungs to cheer, and the
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  Speaker 4: winter frost before us, come chance of the King of
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: the mortal year, and thunder him out in chorus, e
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 4: E bowen decay, decay. The wildering west winds cry decay, decay.
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  Speaker 4: The moaning wood's reply. The whole dead autumn landscape drear
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: and chill strikes the same cord of desolate sadness. Still
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 4: full moon in October without frost, no frost till full
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 4: moon in November, poar, frost and Gypsies never stay nine
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  Speaker 4: days in a place. There are always nineteen fine days
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 4: in October, Kentish saying an April frost is sharp, but kills,
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  Speaker 4: not sad. October's storm strikes when the juices and the
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 4: vital sap are ebbing from the leaf. Henry Taylor, End
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 4: of October recording by Alum Mapstone.
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  Speaker 6: Chapter eleven of A Medley of Weather Lore. This is
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  Speaker 6: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Recording by Brandy J. A Medley of Weather Loore by
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 6: mis Wright, Chapter eleven. Ancient Cornish name miss Dewey, black month,
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  Speaker 6: jewel for the month Topaz, the deelity November first, All
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 6: Saints Day. On All Saints Day, hard is the grain,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: the leaves are dropping, the puddle is full at setting
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  Speaker 6: off in the morning. Woe to him that will trust
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  Speaker 6: a stranger on All Saints Day. Blustering is the weather,
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 6: unlike the beginning of the past fair season. Besides God,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 6: there is none that knows the future. From the Welsh
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 6: seventeen ninety two, apples pears hawthorns quicksets oaks. Set them
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 6: at all hollow tide, and command them to grow. Set
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 6: them at candle mistide, and entreat them to grow wilts.
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  Speaker 6: Who sets an apple tree may lived to see at end.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 6: Who sets a pear tree may set it for a friend.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 6: Hereford their loveliness of life and leaf. At last, the
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 6: waving trees have shed. The garden ground is sown with grief.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 6: The gray chrysanthemum is dead. But oh, remember this, there
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 6: must be birth and blossoming. Nature will waken with a
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 6: kiss next spring. Clement Scott thorny balls each three and
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  Speaker 6: one the chestnuts throw in our path in showers for
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  Speaker 6: the drop of the woodland fruits begun these early November
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 6: hours browning. There never was a just debt than what
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 6: the dried do pay for wet. Never a debt was
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 6: paid more nigh as what the wet do pay for dry.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 6: A wet Sunday, a fine Monday, wet the rest of
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 6: the week, Winchester, an early winter, a surly winter. Saint
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 6: Martin's Day, November eleventh. If Martin Mius Ice can bear
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 6: a duck, the winter will be all meyer and muck.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 6: Tween Martin Mius and yule, water's wine in every pool
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 6: if it is cold, fair and dried. Martin Bace the
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 6: cold and winter will not last long, Old saying, young
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  Speaker 6: and old must go warm, and Martin miss Italy weary.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 6: The cloud falleth out of the sky dreary, the leaf
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 6: lieth low. All things must come to the earth by
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  Speaker 6: and by out of which all things grow, Oh and Meredith,
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  Speaker 6: the years on the wane. There is nothing adorning. The
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 6: night has no eve, and the day has no morning.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 6: Cold winter gives warning hood. The melancholy days are come,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 6: the saddest of the year, of wailing winds and naked
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 6: woods and meadows brown and sere heaped in the hollows
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 6: of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead. They rustle
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 6: to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 6: robin and the wren are flown. And from the shrub
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 6: of the jay, and from the woodtops call the crow
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 6: through all the gloomy day. W Cullen Bryant, November twentieth,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 6: Saint Edmund's Day, set garlic in pease Saint Edmund to
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 6: please Tusser. If on Friday it rain twill on Sunday
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 6: again if Friday be clear, have for Sunday no fear.
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  Speaker 6: From twelve to two, see what the day will do.
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  Speaker 6: November twenty third, Saint Clement's Day. Catherine and Clement be here.
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  Speaker 6: Be here, some of your apples and some of your beer,
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  Speaker 6: some for Peter and some for Paul, and some for
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 6: him that made us all. Clement was a good old man.
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  Speaker 6: For his sake, give us some, none of the worst,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 6: but some of the best, and God will send your
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 6: soul to rest. Worcestershire, November thirtieth, Saint Andrew's Day. On
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 6: Saint Andrews, the night is twice as long as the day. Portugal,
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  Speaker 6: end of chapter eleven. Recording by Brandy J.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 9: Chapter twelve of a Medley of weather Lore. This is
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  Speaker 9: Recording by Lurie Wilson. A Medley of Weatherlore by M. E. S. Wright,
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 9: December ancient Cornish name Midst Carvardine, following black month, jewel
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  Speaker 9: for the month turquoise prosperity, though now no more than
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 9: musing ear delights to listen to the breeze that lingers
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  Speaker 9: o'er the green wood shade. I love thee winter well.
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  Speaker 9: Sweet are the harmonies of spring. Sweet is the summer's
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 9: evening gale, and sweet the autumnal winds that shake them
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  Speaker 9: any colored grove, And pleasant to the sobered soul. The
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  Speaker 9: silence of the wintry scene, when nature shrouds herself entranced
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  Speaker 9: in deep tranquility, southe December frost and January flood never boded.
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  Speaker 9: Has man good? When there are three days cold, expect
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 9: three days colder of gardens. I do hold it in
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  Speaker 9: the royal ording of gardens. There ought to be guard
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 9: modes for all the months in the year in which
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  Speaker 9: severally things of beauty may be then in season. For
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  Speaker 9: December and January and the latter part of November, you
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  Speaker 9: must take such things as are green, all winter, holly,
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  Speaker 9: ivy bays, juniper, cypress trees, eyewe pines, fir trees, rosemary, lavender, periwinkle,
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  Speaker 9: the white, the purple and the blue germander flags, orange trees,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 9: lemon trees, and myrtles, if they be stowed, and sweet,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 9: majoram warm set bacon if frost do continue. Take this
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  Speaker 9: for a law. The strawberries look to be covered with
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 9: straw laid over trim, upon crotches and boughs, and after
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  Speaker 9: uncovered as weather allows. The gilliflower also the skillful duno
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 9: doth look to be covered in frost and in snow.
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  Speaker 9: The knot and the border and rosemary gay do crave
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 9: the like sunde Her for dying away tuss Her December fifth,
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 9: Saint Nicholas's Eve. Saint Nicholas, besides being the patron of children,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 9: was supposed to have provided marriage portions for portionless maidens.
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  Speaker 9: Saint Nicholas money used to give to maiden secret lie,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 9: who that he still may use his wanted liberal thie.
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  Speaker 9: The mothers all their children on the eve do cause
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 9: to fast, and when they everyone at night in Sinseles
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 9: sleep are cast both apples, nuts and pears they bring,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 9: and other things beside as caps and shoes and petticoats,
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  Speaker 9: which secret lie they hide, and in the morning found
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 9: They say that this Saint Nicholas brought thus tender minds
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 9: to worship saints and wicked things are taught from the
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  Speaker 9: Popish kingdom of seventeen fifty Barnaby Googe Saint Nicholas, Archbishop
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  Speaker 9: of mRNA, Patron Saint of ver Purgins, Boys Sailors, and
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  Speaker 9: the worshipful company of parish clerks of the City of
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  Speaker 9: London hone the drooping years in the wine no longer floats,
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  Speaker 9: the thistle down, The crimson heath is wan and sere,
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 9: the sedge hangs withering by the mere, and the broad
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 9: fern is rent and brown. The owl sits huddling by himself.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 9: The cold has pierced his body through. The patient cattle
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 9: hang their head, The deer are neath their winter shed,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 9: the ruddy squirrels in his bed, and each small thing
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 9: within his burrow. Mary Hollett, December twenty first Saint Thomas's Day,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 9: Saint Thomas Gray, Saint Thomas Gray, the longest night and
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 9: the shortest day. Look at the weathercock on Saint Thomas's
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 9: Day at twelve o'clock and see which way the wind is,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 9: and there it will stick for the next three months. Warwickshire.
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  Speaker 9: There is never a Saturday in the year, but what
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 9: the sun at doth appear? If birds pipe before Christmas,
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  Speaker 9: they'll greet after. Scotland mystic mistletoe flaunted, such as the
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 9: duads cut down with golden hatchets at yule Tide, longfellow
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 9: William Stukeley, arch Duode sixteen eighty seven to seventeen sixty
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 9: five says the dudes cut mistletoe off the trees with
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 9: their upright hatchets of brass called selts, put upon the
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 9: ends of their staffs, which they carried in their hands.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 9: Mistletoe is said to be the forbidden tree in the
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  Speaker 9: middle of the trees of Eden. If Christmas Day on
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  Speaker 9: Monday bee a great winter that year, you'll see what
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 9: child on that day born be of great worship? Shall
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 9: he be manuscript in Boulaine. If that Christmas Day should
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 9: fall upon Friday, know well all that winter season shall
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  Speaker 9: be easy, save great winds aloft shall fly Easter and
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  Speaker 9: snow Christmas, and mud Christmas and snow Easter and mud Germany.
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  Speaker 9: So now as come our joyful feast, Let every man
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 9: be jolly, Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, and
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  Speaker 9: every post with holly. Though sung churls at our mirth.
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  Speaker 9: Repine round your forehead, garlands, twine, drown sorrow in a
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 9: cup of wine, and let us all be merry. George,
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  Speaker 9: whither Carol of Queen Anne's Time sixteen ninety five. Thrice
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  Speaker 9: Welcome Christmas, which makes us good cheer, mince pies and
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  Speaker 9: plum porridge, good ale and strong beer with pig goose
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  Speaker 9: and capon the best that may be. So well doth
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 9: the weather and our stomachs agree. Observe how the chimneys
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  Speaker 9: do smoke all about the cook so providing for dinner
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 9: no doubt, kindle the Christmas brand, and then till sunrise
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 9: lets it burn which quenched, then lay up again till
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  Speaker 9: Christmas next return. Part must be kept wherewith to tend
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  Speaker 9: the Christmas log next year. And when tis safely kept,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 9: the fiend can do no mischief there. Warwickshire, December twenty
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  Speaker 9: sixth Saint Stephen's Day. Blessed be Saint Stephen. There's no
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 9: fast upon his even old the saying Bishop Hall says
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 9: on Saint Stephen's Day, blessings are implored upon pastures. December
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  Speaker 9: twenty eighth, Innocence Day, or children must stay. According to
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  Speaker 9: the monks, it was very unlucky to begin any work
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  Speaker 9: on children miss stay. And whatsoever day that falls on,
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  Speaker 9: whether on the Monday or Tuesday or any other, nothing
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  Speaker 9: must be begun on that day through the year Henry
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  Speaker 9: born seventeen twenty five day's lengthen a cockstride each day
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  Speaker 9: after Christmas. Know the best season to laugh and to
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 9: sing is winter, is summer, is autumn is spring? Old
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  Speaker 9: song hagman hay, old Yorkshire custom for hag or woodman
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  Speaker 9: to go round to ask for money on New Year's Eve.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 9: New Year's Eve, hark the cock crows, and yon bright
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 9: star tells us the day himself's not far and see
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 9: where breaking from the night, he gilds the western hills
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 9: with light with him Old Janus doth appear peeping into
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 9: the future year with such a look as seems to
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  Speaker 9: say the prospect is not good that way. Charles Cotton.
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  Speaker 9: If New Year's Eve night wind blows south, it betokeneth
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  Speaker 9: warmth and growth. If West much milk and fish in
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  Speaker 9: the sea, If North much cold and storms there will
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 9: be If east the trees will bear much fruit. If
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 9: Northeast flee at man and brute the new year with
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 9: as yet unacted history claims the homage of our last
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 9: departing chime, then we hush ourselves in awe before the
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 9: mystery of youngest in the freshest birth of time. The
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 9: good old year is with the past. Oh be the
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 9: new as kind Pope, end of chapter twelve, end of
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  Speaker 9: a Medley of weather lore by M. E. S.
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  Speaker 7: Wright