Copy 1, Volume 1
Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / By Thomas Wright.
- Thomas Wright
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages / By Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Almost the identical rhymes are found in German — “ Regenbogen am morgen Macht dem schifer sorgen ; Regenbogen am abend Ist dem schafer labend.” ¢ “ A rainbow in the morning, Makes sorrow to the shepherd ; A rainbow in the evening, Is to the shepherd agreeable.” One half of this ‘‘ saw’ is found in French— “TL ’arc-en-ciel du soir Fait beau temps paroir.” Every country has its proverbs which relate to particular places, and to circumstances connected with them, as that relating to Cornwall, — “ By tre, pol, and pen, You shall know the Cornish-men ;” or that of Newcastle, ‘‘A Scottish man and a Newcastle grindstone travel all the world over;” or the popular rhyme concerning the hill of Turloim in Perthshire— “On Turloim-tap [top] There is a mist; And in the mist There is a kist [ches¢] ; And on the kist There is a cap [cup] ; And in the cap There is a drap [drop] ; Tak up the cap, And drink the drap, And leave the cap On Turloim-tap.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33097963_0001_0149.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
