Proverb 3

"No tempest good July lest the corn grow ruly"

Meaning:-

There's a storm coming. I used this one at the beginning of the song Juno. Juno is a song about a girl called Juno who lived in England in the agricultural revolution, around 1750. Juno has a tumultuous romantic involvement with a rogue from the city. A man born of wealth and prosperity and somehow involved in the political heights of London, but whom she actually knows less than little about. Juno was adopted and lived on a remote farm in Derbyshire with her ailing father, her only remaining parent. The story, and song, start as she watches, tear in eye, her roguish partner leave briskly on horse and carriage, up the valley and into the distance, under a sheperd's red and blustery sky. As she and her old father watch him leave her father looks down and then back up and hesitantly utters "No tempest good July lest the corn grow ruly". He knows full well that this is not the end of this story, but the start. Juno looks at him starkly...and the song embarks.

ps, A newer version of Juno is not yet on the site. It is coming though :)