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IN the preceeding Chapters, I have given you the choicest Aphorisms, for giving judgement upon the weather: and I am confident, that he which understands them (which I fear will not be many) may not only give a probable conjecture of the weather, for (one) but many years to come; But because the preceeding Aphorisms may happen to (some) to be of difficult understanding to the illiterate, I shall therefore shew (even the most
rural) how to foretell the changes of the weather, if he have but the eyes of sense and understanding in his head: and for his greater facility, I shall Marshal the method in these seven Devisions.
This is the method, now to the matter.
1. The Sun rising and setting clear: 2. The Moon clear three dayes after the Change, or before the Full: 3. Spots appearing in a Full Moon: 4. Clouds with golden edges towards Sun setting: 5. A cloudy sky clearing against the wind: 6. The Rain bow appearing only Red and Yellow: 7. A Red Evening or a Gray Morning.
1. When the Sun in his rising is hidden with a black cloud: 2. When the Moon (within three or four days after the Change) is blunt on both horns: 3. The Rain∣bow appearing in a fair day, the greener, the more rain: 4. The extraordinary chattering of the Pyets: 5. Cat∣tell licking their hoofs behind: 6. When the greatest Stars only appear, and that misty: 7. Lute or Viol∣strings breaking untouched.
1. Red clouds in a morning. 2. Often shooting of Stars: 3. Clouds flying swiftly in a clear air: 4. The Rain-bow red: 5. Black circles with red strakes about the Sun or Moon: 6. Stars dimn and fiery, it's a sign of winde and showres when the Sun beams appear before he riseth: 7. If the Sun sets pale, or be enclosed with a black circle when he is near the time of his setting.
1. Many Bats flying abroad sooner then ordinary: 2. A white mist rising out of Moores and Waters before the Sun rise: 3. The Kyts (or Gleds) flying high in the air: 4. Crowes or Ravens gaping against the Sun: 5. Great store of Flyes and Midges playing in the Sun∣shine towards night.
Stars seeming dimn or fiery red, signifies both drought and wind.
As frost, snow or hail. 1. Clouds flying low, seeming to touch the tops of hills: 2. Great flocks of small Birds gathered together: 3. If in the Winter the Sun shine clear towards night: 4. The extraordinary twinkling of the Stars: 5. Clouds upon heaps like Rocks: 6. An obscure circle about the Sun or Moon.
Snow falling small in the beginning of a frost; but if the snow fall bigg, viz. in great flakes, then it's like to thaw very suddenly, especially if the Southwind blow.