¶Of August. Cap. 16.
THe eight month is called Augustus, and hath that name of Augustus the Emperour: and this month is called E∣bal among the Hebrewes, & Ior among
Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.
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the Gréekes, and hath xxxi. dayes. His night hath x. houres, and his daye xiiii. In this moneth corne is gathered into barned: and therefore he is painted with a flayle threshing corne, and maketh the earth bare, & spoileth it of corne & fruite. And therfore it is sayde, yt the Sun in ye middes of August, commeth into the signe that is called Virgo, the maide: for a maide is barren and without fruite, so the earth is barren and bare, when he is spoyled of corne and fruite.