“Change,” in the quaint language of Feltham, “is the great lord of the universe, and Time is the agent which brings all things under his dominion.”  This has been demonstrated through our past calendar of monthly characteristics; to which are subjoined, from a still more quaint authority than Feltham, said to be printed in the reign of Henry VII., in a Sarum black-letter missal: 

THE MONTHS MORALIZED.

(From our Correspondent, M.L.B.)

  Januarius.

  The fyrst six yeres of mannesbyrth and aege
    May well be compared to Janyere,
  For in this moneth, is no strengeth nor courage
    More than in a chylde of the aege of six yere.

  Februarius.

  The other six yeres is like February,
    In the end thereof beguyneth (1) the Sprynge,
  That tyme chyldren is moost asst and redy
    To receyve chastysement, nurture and lernynge.

  Martinus.

  March betokeneth the six yeres followynge,
    Arayeng the erthe with pleasaunt verdure;
  That season youth thought for nothynge,
    And wothout thought dooth his sporte and pleasure.

  Aprilis.

  The next six yere maketh four-and-twenty,
    And figured is to jolly Aprill
  That tyme of pleasures man hath most plenty
    Fresh, and louying (2) his lustes tofulfyll.

  Maius.

  As in the moneth of Maye all thing in mygth (3)
    So at thirty yeres man is in chief lyking,
  Pleasaunt and lustie to every mannes sygth, (4)
    In beauti and strengthe to women pleasynge.

  Junius.

  In June, all thyns falleth to rypenesse,
  And so dooth man at Ihirty-six yere old,
  And studyetli for to acquyre rychesse. 
  And taketh a wyfe, to keepe his householde.

  Julius.

  At forty yere of aege, or elles never
    Is ony man endewed with wysdome
  For than forgth (5) his mygth fayleth ever
    As in July doth every blossome.

  Augustus.

  The goodes of the erthe is gadered evermore
    In August, so at forty-eight yere
  Man ought to gather some goodes in store
    To susteyne aege that then draweth nere.

  September.

  Let no man thynke, for to gather plenty
    Yf, at fifty-four yere he have none
  No more than yf his barne were empty
    In September when all the come is gone.

  October.

  By Octobre betokenyth sixty yere
    That aege hastely dooth man assayle,
  Yf he have outgh (6) than (7) it dooth appere
    To lyve quyetly after his travayle.

  November.

  When man is at sixty-six yere olde
    Which lykened is to bareyne Novembre
  He waxeth unweldy, (8) sekely (9) and cold
    Than (7) his soule helth is time to remember.