[Now snow, and rain, and haile & flauering sleet]
The ninth of February, the Sunne enters into Pisces, Or the signe of the two fishes.
Pisces. February.
Now snow, and rain, and haile & flauering sleet,
(The Delphean god hath suckt from sea and land,
With exhalations) now the earth they greet:
Powr'd downe by Iris liberall hand,
If foulefac'd February keepe true touch,
He makes the toyling Plowmans prouerbe right;
By night, by day, by little and by much,
It fills the ditch, with either blacke or white:
And as the hard cornuted butting Ram,
At setting forth was Tytans daintiest dish:
So to conclude his race, right glad I am,
To leaue him feasting with a messe of fish.
And long in Pisces he doth not remaine,
But leaues the fish, and falls to flesh againe.
