Charistia : ar/dircu : Lave Feasts.
Diis generis date thnra bonis. Cioncordia fertnr
Illo praecipne mitis adease die.
Et libate dapes: nt grati pignns amoris,
Nntriat intinctos missa patella cibos.
Jamq' nbi snadebit placidos nox oltima somnoe,
Farca precatiir» snmite yina manus.— [F. ii. 631-636.]
Drinking good healths and xf King^s health.
Et bene ycns, patriae, bene, te pater, optime Caesar,
Dicite snffaso, per sacra verba, mero. — [F. ii. 637-8.]
Boundsy mere^stonesy and Perambulations.
Termine, sive lapis, sive es defossns in agro
Stipes ab antiquis, sic quoq' nmnen babes. — [F. ii. 641-2.]
Gonyeniant, celebrantq' dapes yicinia simplex;
Et cantant landes, Termine sancte, toas. — [F. ii. 667-8.]
*****
Et sen yomeribns, sen tn pnlsabere rastris,
Clamato, Mens est hie ager, ille tnns. — [F. ii. 677-8.]
.... [.an] yeris praennncia yenit hinmdo ? — [F. ii. 853.]
One swallow makes no spring.[1]
Liber III. March. apvOfio^,
Annus erat, decimum cum Luna repleyerat orbem. Hie nmnerus magno tnnc in honore fnit. Sen quia tot digiti, per qnos nnmerare solemns: Sen qnia bis qnino foemina mense pant. Sen quod ad nsq' decern nnmero crescente yenitnr; Principinm spatiis snmitnr inde novis. — [F. iii. 121-126.] *****
Assnetos igitnr nnmeros servayit in anno.
Hoc Inget spatio foemina moesta yimm. — [F. iii. 133-4.]
***** The vulgar in the West of England doe call the month of March, Lide. A proverbiall ryhthme —
" Eate Leekes in Lide, and Bamsins in May,
And all the jeare after Fhysitians may play."
- ↑ [For this proyerb in other languages see Mr. Swainson's Weather Folk-Lore," p. 14— Ed.]
