DEVONWARE THAT MY MUM LEFT ME.
It is also a mistake to cut the nails on a Friday, as witness the next rhyme, which indeed tells us what will befall us on the several days of the week, after having performed this necessary operation : —
A man had better ne’er been born, Than have his nails on a Sunday shorn.
Cut them on Monday, cut them for health,
Cut them on Tuesday, cut them for wealth,
Cut them on Wednesday, cut them for news.
Cut them on Thursday, for a new pair of shoes.
Cut them on Friday, cut them for sorrow,
Cut them on Saturday, see your sweetheart to-morrow.
"Folk rhymes of Devon; notices of the metrical sayings found in the lore of the people"
