Proper noun
Dayes
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest haue xxxi. Richard Grafton