"Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all."
"Saturday new, And Sunday full, Never was fine, And never wool."
"Born of a Monday, Fair in face; Born of a Tuesday, Full of God's grace; Born of a Wednesday, Merry and glad; Born of a Thursday, Sour and sad; Born of a Friday, Godly given; Born of a Saturday, Work for your living; Born of a Sunday, Never shall we want; So there ends the week, And there's an end on't."
"Up the hill, urge him not; Down the bill, drive him not; Cross the flat, spare him not; To the hostler, trust him not."
"One for the mouse, One for the crow, One to rot, One to grow."
"When the days lengthen, The colds strengthen."
Two German proverbial distiches, similar to the last, are given in Körte's _Sprichwörter_, p. 548.:
"Wenn de Dage fangt an to längen, Fangt de Winter an to strengen."
"Wenn die Tage langen, Kommt der Winter gegangen."
With the first set of rhymes, we may compare the following verses on washing on the successive days of the week, in Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes of England_, p. 42. ed. 3.:
"They that wash on Monday Have all the week to dry; They that wash on Tuesday, Are not so much awry; They that wash on Wednesday, Are not so much to blame; They that wash on Thursday, Wash for shame; They that wash on Friday, Wash in need; And they that wash on Saturday, Oh! they are sluts indeed."
_"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde."_--Have these terms, which play so memorable a part in the "Tale of King Edward and the Shepherd" { 516} (Hartshorne's _Ancient Metrical Tales_) been explained? The shepherd's instructions (pp. 48, 49.) seem more zealous than luminous; but it has occurred to me that _perhaps_ "passelodion," "passilodyon," or "passilodion" may have some reference to the ancient custom of drinking from a _peg_-tankard, since [Greek: passalos] means a _peg_, and [Greek: passalôdia] would be a legitimate pedantic rendering of _peg-song_, or _peg-stave_, and _might_ be used to denote an exclamation on having _reached the peg_.
_Inscription on an Alms-dish._--In Bardsea Church, Island of Furness, is an alms-dish(?) of a large size, apparently very old, gilt, and bearing the following inscription:--