Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various
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_Friday Weather._--The following meteorological proverb is frequently
repeated in Devonshire, to denote the variability of the weather on Friday: "Fridays in the week are never _aleek_." "Aleek" for "alike," a common Devonianism. {304} Thus Peter Pindar describes a turbulent crowd of people as being "_Leek_ bullocks sting'd by apple-drones." Is this bit of weather-wisdom current in other parts of the kingdom? I am induced to ask the question, because Chaucer seems to have embodied the proverb in some well-known lines, viz.:-- "Right as the Friday, sothly for to tell, Now shineth it, and now it raineth fast, Right so can gery Venus overcast The hertes of hire folk, right as hire day Is gerfull, right so changeth she aray. _Selde is the Friday all the weke ylike_." _The Knighte's Tale_, line 1536. _Tyndale._--Can any of your readers inform me whether the translation of the "_Enchiridion Militis Christiani Erasmi_," which Tyndale completed in 1522, was ever printed? J.M.B. |
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