Three Borrowed Days
There is an old proverb still used by the English and Scotch rustics, which represent March as borrowing three days from April. In the “Complaynt of Scotland” they are thus described—
“The first it shall be wind and weet;
The next it shall be snaw and sleet;
The third it shall be sic a freeze
Shall gar the birds stick to the trees.”
But it is disputed whether these “borrowed days” are the last three of March or the first three of April.