A collection of proverbs and popular sayings relating to the seasons, the weather, and agricultural pursuits / gathered chiefly from oral tradition. By M.A. Denham.

  • Denham, M. A. (Michael Aislabie), -1859.
Date:
1846
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Credit: A collection of proverbs and popular sayings relating to the seasons, the weather, and agricultural pursuits / gathered chiefly from oral tradition. By M.A. Denham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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He’s a fule that marries at Yule; For when the bairn’s to bear, The corn’s to shear.* Make we mirth for Christ’s birth, And sing we Yule till Candlemas. It’s good crying Yule, On another man’s stool.f If Christmas-day on a Monday fall, A troublous winter we shall have all. Yule, Yule, Yule, Yule ! Three puddings in a pule (pool), Crack nuts and cry Yule!| * A meet companion for another adage given under June, t The best note that I can give will, I trust, be considered sufficiently explanatory and well-fitted for the nonce, viz.:— “ Tt is good to cry Yule at another man’s cost. J This was, I understand, some fifty years ago, a common “cry,” in the counties of York and Durham, on the night of Christmas-day: but what the “ three puddings in a pule” are intended to typify, I have never been able to discover, unless it be three plum puddings on a ponderous pewter dish, floating, as it were, in a “pule” of sweetened rum-sauceP (they convey the idea of its being an abstract). The command to “ crack nuts” may be inferred from the following extract from a Christ- mas carol, given at the end of old George Wither’s Juvenilia,— “ Harke how the «agges abrode doe call Each other t'oorth to rambling; Anon, you’ll see them in the hall, For nuts and apples scambling.” F