Happy! – Mar 1 (David's Day)

01 Mar 06 - 08:36 AM (#1682143)
Subject: Happy! – Mar 1 (David's Day)
From: Abby Sale


Happy St. David's Day!

March 1 in Wales is St David's Day
died c.544.

  From Suffolk: 
          First comes David, then comes Chad             (St. Chad's Day- March 2)
          And then comes Winneral as tho' he was mad     (St. Winwaloe- March 3)  
                                                            ie, bad weather begins then.
                  English Folk-Rhymes, GF Northall, 1892.
  
  ALSO:         
          There were three men of Gotam,
                  as I haue heard men say,
          That needs would ride a hunting
                  vpon Saint Dauids day.

This well-known song was embodied in a black-letter broadside ballad, "Choice of Inuentions," Or Seuerall sorts of the figure of three, entered in the Stationers' Register 2 January 1632
                [thanx Malcolm Douglas of Mudcat (etc)]

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