 | Percy Society - 1841 - 468 str.
...day you'll have good luck ; See a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have all the day ! CLX. A SWAHM of bees in May, Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of...spoon ; A swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly. CLXI. ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain . St. Swithin's day if thou... | |
 | Percy Society - 1841 - 476 str.
...day you'll have good luck ; See a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have all the day ! CLX. A SWAHM of bees in May, Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of...spoon ; A swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly. CLXI. ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou... | |
 | Lucy (fict.name.) - 1842 - 222 str.
...the same letter ; and then she sang a little song that had not much to do with the incident : — " A swarm of Bees in May, Is worth a load of hay ; A...spoon ; A swarm of Bees in July, Is not worth a fly." In this way passed the time with Susan, and I think you will not be surprised that the children felt... | |
 | 1853 - 892 str.
...hive in the course of the summer, more or less valuable according to the time of year ; for though " a swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay," because, then, there are plenty of flowers, and abundance of time to make honey before winter, yet,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1843 - 332 str.
...up, All the day you'll have good luck ; See a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have all the day ! A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A...spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. cc. ST. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day, if thou... | |
 | Story-teller - 1843 - 324 str.
...could not but own, with astonishment, that never till then had so long an arm come before her. BEES. A swarm of bees in May, Is worth a load of hay ; A...spoon; A swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly. Old Proverb. in the centre, and which was covered by a pall of cloth of gold. While the young men contemplated... | |
 | 1844 - 276 str.
...against the winter. In Warwickshire so well is this understood, that one of the popular rhymes runs — A swarm of bees in May, Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June, Is worth a silver spoon ; But a swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly. This month is not a very busy season for the farmer.... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 str.
...like a fly. A cold May and a windy, Makes a fat barn and a findy. A hot May makes a fat church-yard. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spime. A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly ! A May flood — never did good. If you look at... | |
 | 1844 - 858 str.
...like a fly. A cold May and a windy, Makes a fat barn and a findy. A hot May makes a fat church-yard. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spvme. A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly ! A May flood — never did good. If you look at... | |
 | 1846 - 300 str.
...only way, LXXII. [The following is quoted in Miege's ' Great French Dictionary, fol. Lond. 1687, 2(1 part.] A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay;...spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. LXXIII. THEY that wash on Monday Have all the week to dry; They that wash on Tuesday Are not so much... | |
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A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. 
