Thirty days hath November,
April, June, and September,
February, hath xxviii(28) alone,
And all the rest have xxxi(31).
--Richard Grafton, Chronicles of England (1590)
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
--Common in the New England States
The King of France went up the hill
With twenty thousand men;
The King of France came down the hill,
and ne'er went up again.
--Pigges Corantoe (Newes from the North)
Hope told a flattering tale,
That Joy would soon return;
Ah! naught my sighs avail,
For Love is doomed to mourn.
--Anonymous
