Scotch Proverbs.

• A Fair Bride is ſoon buskt, and a ſhort Horſe is ſoon wiſpt.
• A friends Dinner is ſoon dight.
• All is not in hand that helps.
• All the Keys of the Countrey hangs not at one Belt.
• An ill Cook would have a good Cleaver.
• As good hand, as draw.
• As the old Cock craws, the young Cock lears.
• All fails that fools thinks.
• A blyth heart makes a blomand viſage.
• A gentle Horſe would not be〈◊〉〈1 line〉
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• A ſtill Sow eats all the Draff.
• All things hath a beginning, God excepted.
• A blind man ſhould not judge of colours.
• A good fellow tint never, but at an ill fellows hand.
• All the Corn in the Country is not ſhorn by the Kempers.
• A good beginning makes a good ending.
• As many heads as many wits.
• A black ſhoe makes a blythe heart.
• A Vaunter and a Lyar is both one thing.
• A dum man wan never land.
• And old hound bytes ſair.
• A ſloathfull man is a Beggers brother.
• As ſoon comes the Lamb-skin to the market as the old Sheeps.
• At open doors Dogs come in.
• An hungry man ſees far.
• All is not tint that is in peril.
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• As the Sow fills the Draff ſowres.
• A good asker ſhould have a good nay-ſay.
• A good ruſer was never a good rider.
• A Lyar ſhould have a good me­mory.
• Ane Begger is wae, another by the gate gae.
• A wight man never wanted a weapon.
• A half-penny Cat may look to the King.
• As fair greits the bairn that is dung after noon, as he that is dung before noon.
• An oleit Mother makes a ſweir Daughter.
• A borrowed len ſhould come laughing a hme.
• As long runs the Fox as he hath feet.
• A proud heart in a poor breaſt, has meikle dolour to dree.
• A teem purſe makes a bleat mer­chant.
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• Ane year a Nuriſh, ſeven years a Daw.
• Ane ill word begets another, and it were at at the Bridge at London.
• A Wool-ſeller kens a Wool-buy­er.
• Auld men are twice bairns.
• All fellows, Jock and the Laird.
• A haſty man never wanted woe.
• A ſilly bairn is eith to lear.
• As good merchant tines as wins.
• A rackleſſe huſſy makes mony thieves.
• A hungry lowſe bites ſair.
• Anes payit never crave it.
• A fools bolt is ſoon ſhot.
• Anes wood, never wiſe, ay the worſe.
• As the Carle riches he wretches.
• An ill life, an ill end.
• A Skabbed Horſe is good enough for a skald Squire.
• A given Horſe ſhould not be lookt in the teeth.
• An old ſeck craves meikle clout­ing.
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• A travelled man hath leave to lye.
• A fool when he hes ſpoken, hes all done.
• A man that is warned, is half-armed.
• A mirk mirrour is a mans mind.
• A full heart lied never.
• A good Cow may have an ill Calf.
• A dum man holds all.
• A Cock is crouſe upon his own midding.
• A greedy man God hates.
• As fair fights Wrans as Cranes.
• A skade mans head is ſoon broke.
• A yeeld Sow was never good to gryſes.
• An unhappy mans Cairt is eith to tumble.
• As meikle upwith, as meikle downwith.
• A new Biſſom ſweeps clean.
• A skabbed ſheep fyles all the flock.
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• A tarrowing bairn was never fat.
• A tratler is worſe then a thief.
• An ill ſhearer gat never a good hook.
• A burnt bairn fire dreads.
• All the ſpeed is in the ſpurs.
• A word before is worth two be­hinde.
• An ill win penny will caſt down a pound.
• An old ſeck is ay skailing.
• A fair fire makes a room flet.
• An old Knave is na bairn.
• A good yeoman makes a good woman.
• A man hath no more good then he hath good of.
• A fool may give a wiſe man a counſell.
• A man may ſpeir the gate to Rome.
• As long lives the merry-man, as the wretch for all the craft he can.
• All wald have all, all wald for­give.
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• Ane may lead a Horſe to the water, but four and twenty cannot gar him drink.
• A bleat Cat makes a proud Mouſe.
• An ill-willy Cow ſhould have ſhort horns.
• A good piece ſteil is worth a pen­ny.
• A ſhored Tree ſtands long.
• A gloved Cat was never a good Hunter.
• A gangan foot is ay getting, and it were but a thorn.
• All is not gold that glitters.
• Ane Swallow makes no ſummer.
• A man may ſpit on his hand, and doe full ill.
• An ill ſervant will never be a good maiſter.
• An hired Horſe tired never.
• All the winning is in the firſt buying.
• An unch is a feaſt, (of Bread and Cheeſe.)
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• An Horſe may ſnapper on four feer.
• All things wytes that well not fares.
• All things thrive but thrice.
• Abſence is a ſhro.
• Auld ſin, new ſhame.
• A man cannot thrive except his wife let him.
• A bairn muſt creep ere he gang.
• As long as ye bear the tod, ye man bear up his tail.
• All overs are ill but over the wa­ter.
• A man may wooe where he will, but wed where is his weard.
• A mean pot plaid never even.
• Among twenty four fools not ane wiſe man.
• Ane mans meat is another mans poyſon.
• A fool will not give his Bauble for the Tower of London.
• A foul foot makes a fon wemb.
• A man is a Lyon in his own cauſe.
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• A hearty hand to give a hungry meltith.
• A cumberſome Cur in company is hated for his miſcarriage.
• A poor man is fain of little.
• An anſwer in a word.
• A bettleſſe brain cannot lye.
• A yule feaſt may be quit at Paſch.
• A good dog never barkt but a bene.
• A full ſeck will take a clout on the ſide.
• An ill hound comes halting home.
• All things helps quoth the Wran, when ſhe piſht in the Sea.
• All cracks, all beares.
• All Houndleſſe man comes to the beſt Hunting.
• All things hes an end, a Pudding hes twa.
• All is well that ends well.
• As good hads the ſtirep as he that loups on.
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• A begun work is half ended.
• A Scots man is ay wiſe behind hand.
• A new tout in all old horn.
• A broken a Ship hes come to land.
• As the fool thinks ay the bell clinks.
• A man may ſee his friend need, but will not ſee him bleed.
• A friend is not known but in need.
• A friend in Court is worth a penny in purſe.
• All things are good unſeyed.
• A good Gooſe indeed, but ſhe hes an ill ganſell.
• All are not maidens that wears bare hair.
• A Mach and a Horſhoe are both alike.
• Airly crooks the Tree that good Lammock ſhould be.
• An ounce of mother-wit, is worth a pound of clergie.
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• An inch of a nag is worth a ſpan of an aver.
• A good word is as ſoon ſaid as an ill.
• A ſpoon full of skytter ſpills a pot full of skins.

• BEtter give nor take.
• Better lang little, then ſoon right nought.
• Better hand looſe, nor bound to an ill baikine.
• Better late thrive then never.
• Buy when I bid you.
• Better ſit idle then work for nought.
• Better learn by your neighbors skaith nor by your own.
• Better half an egge, nor teem doup.
• Better apple given nor eaten.
• Better a Dog faun nor bark on you.
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• Boden gear ſtinks.
• Bourd neither with me, nor with my Honour.
• Betwixt twae ſtools the arſe falls down.
• Better bide the Cooks nor the Mediciners.
• Better bairns greit, nor bearded men.
• Better ſaucht with little aucht, nor care with many cow.
• Better two skaiths, nor ane ſorrow.
• Bring a Cow to the Hall, and ſhe will run to the byre again.
• Better bow nor break.
• Bear wealth, poverty will bear it ſelf.
• Better a wit coft, nor two for nought.
• Better good ſale, nor good Ale.
• Better wooe over midding, nor over moſſe.
• Better happy to court, nor good ſervice.
• Blaw the wind nere ſo faſt, it will lowen at the laſt.
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• Better be happy nor wiſe.
• Binde faſt, finde faſt.
• Better plays a full wemb nor a new coat.
• Better ſay, Here it is, nor, Here it was.
• Better auld debts nor auld ſairs.
• Bourd not with Bawty, fear leſt he bite ye.
• Better a fowl in hand nor twa flying.
• Better rew ſit, nor rew flit.
• Better ſpare at the breird nor at the bottome.
• Better finger off, nor ay wark­ing.
• Bind the ſeck ere it be full.
• Better be well loved, nor ill won geir.
• Better a clout nor a hole out.
• Better no ring, nor the ring of a raſh.
• Butter and burn-trouts gar mai­dens f — the wind.
• Better held out nor put out.
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• Better have a Mouſe in the pot as no fleſh.
• Better ſit ſtil, nor riſe and get a fall.
• Better leave nor want.
• Better buy as borrow.
• Better be dead as out of the fa­ſhion.
• Better unborn nor untaught.
• Better be envied nor pittied.
• Better a little fire that warms, nor a meikle that burns.
• Be the ſame thing that thou wald be cald.
• Better a laying Hen nor a lyin Crown.
• Bannaks is better nor na kind of bread.
• Black will be no other Hue.
• Beauty but bounty avails nought.
• Bairns mother burſt never.
• Breads Houſe skiald never.
• Biting and ſcarting is Scots folks wooing.
• Beware of Had I wiſt.
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• Better be alone nor in ill com­pany.
• Better a chigging mother, nor a riding father.
• Better never begun nor never endit.
• Bonie ſilver is ſoon ſpendit.
• Before I wein, and now I wat.

• CUrteſie is cumberſom to them that kens it not.
• Come it aire, come it late, in May comes the Cow-quake.
• Court to the Town, and whore to the window.
• Calk is na ſheares.
• Clap a carle on the culs, and he will ſhit in your louf.
• Cadgers ſpeaks of lead ſaddles.
• Changing of works is lighting of hearts.
• Charge your friend ere you need.
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• Cats eats that Huſſies ſpares.
• Caſt not forth the old water while the new come in.
• Ceaſe your ſnow balls caſting.
• Crabbit was, and cauſe had.
• Compariſons are odious.
• Cold cools the love that kindles over hot.
• Cut duels in every Town.
• Condition makes, and condi­tion breakes.
• Come not to the councell uncal­led.

• DEad and marriage makes Term­day.
• Do weiland have weil.
• Do as ye wald be done to.
• Do in Hill, as ye wald do in Hall.
• Dame dein warily.
• Dummie cannot lie.
• Draff is good enough for Swine.
• Dead at the one door, and heir­ſhip at the other.
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• Do well, and doubt no man; and do weil, and doubt all men.
• Do the likelieſt, and God will do the beſt.
• Drunken wife gat ay the drun­ken penny.
• Drink and drouth comes ſindle together.
• Dead men bites not.
• Daſſing dow nothing.
• Dogs will red ſwine.
• Drive out the inch as thou haſt done the ſpan.
• Dirt parts company.

• EVery man can rule an ill wife, but he that hes Her.
• Eaten meat is good to pay.
• Eild wald have Honour.
• Evening Orts is good morning­fother.
• Every man wiſheth the water to his own milne.
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• Early maiſter, lang knave.
• Every land hes his lauch, and e­very co••e hes the caff.
• Eat and drink meaſurely, and de­fie the mediciners.
• Every man for Himſelf, quoth the mertine.
• Efter delay comes a Let.
• Efter long mint, never dint.
• Every man flams the fat ſows Arſe.
• Experience may teach a fool.
• Every man wats beſt where his own ſhoe binds him.
• Efter word comes weard.

• FOul water ſlokens fire.
• Fools are fain of flitting.
• Falſhood made never a fair Hin­der-end.
• Far fowls have fair feathers.
• Follie is a bonny Dog.
• Fair heights makes fools fain.
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• Freedome is a fair thing.
• For a tint thing care not.
• Fool haſt is no ſpeed.
• For fault of wiſemen fools ſits on binks.
• Forbid a fool a thing, and that he will do.
• Fools ſet far tryſtes.
• For love of the Nuris, many kiſ­ſes the Bairn.
• Fair words brake never bane, foul words man, ane.
• Fools make feaſts, and wiſe men cat them.
• Fools are fain of right nought.
• Far ſought, and dear bought, is good for Ladies.
• Follow love, and it will flee from thee; leave it, and it will follow thee.
• Fill fow, and had fow, makes a ſtarke man.
• Fools ſhould have no chappin ſticks.
• Fidlers dogs and flies, come to the feaſt uncalled.
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• Fire is good for the farcy.
• Few words ſufficeth to a wiſe man.
• Friendſhip ſtands not in One ſide.

• GIve never the Wolf the Wed­der to keep.
• Gods help is nearer nor the fair evin.
• Good wine needs not a wiſp.
• Grace is beſt for the marr.
• Goe ſhoe the Geeſe.
• Giff, gaff, makes good friends.
• Good chear, and good cheap, garres many haunt the Houſe.
• God ſends men cold, as they have clothes to.
• Good-will ſhould be tane in part of payment.
• God ſends never the mouth, but the meat with it.
• Girne when you knit, and laugh when ye looſe.
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• Go to the Devil for Gods-ſake.
• God ſends meat, and the Devil ſends Cooks.

• HAd-I-fiſh, was never good with Garlick.
• He that is welcome fares well.
• He that ſpends his geir on a whore, hes both ſhame and skaith.
• Hunger is good Kitchin-meat.
• He mon have leave to ſpeak that cannot had his tongue.
• He that is far from his geir, is near his skaith.
• He that lippens to bon plows, his land will ly ley.
• He rides ſicker that fell never.
• Help thy ſelf, and God will help thee.
• He that will not hear mother­head, ſhall hear ſtepmotherhead.
• He that crabs without cauſe, ſhould meaſe without mends.
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• He that ſpares to ſpeak, ſpares to ſpeed.
• He that may not do as he would, mon do as he may.
• He is well e••…t that hes ought of his〈…〉when others go to meat.
• He〈◊〉does ill hates the light.
• He th•…ſpeaks the things he ſhould〈…〉the things he would not.
• He that is evil deem'd is half hang'd.
• He that tholes, overcomes.
• He riſes over early that is hangit ere noon.
• He that forſakes miſſour, miſſour forſake him.
• Half a tale is enough to a wiſe man.
• He that hews over hie, the ſpail will fall into his eye.
• He that eats while he laſts, will be the war while he die.
• He is a weak Horſe that may not bear the Saddle.
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• He that borrows and bigs; makes feaſts and thigs; drinks and is not dry; theſe three are not thrifty.
• He is a proud Tod that will not ſcrape his own Hole.
• He is wiſe, when he is well can had him ſa.
• He is poor that God Hates.
• He is wiſe, that is ware in time.
• He is wiſe who can make a friend of a foe.
• Hair, and hair, makes the Carles head bare.
• Hear all parties.
• He that is red for windleſtraws, ſhould not ſleep in lees.
• He that is fraid of a far — ſhould never hear thunder.
• He is not the fool that the fool is, but he that with the fool deals.
• He loves me for little that hates me for nought.
• He that hes twa huirds, is able to get the third.
• He is a ſairy beggar that may24 not goe by ane mans door.
• Hall-binks are ſliddery.
• He is not the beſt Wright that hews the manieſt ſpeals.
• He that evill does, never good weins.
• Hoordom and grace, can never bide in one place.
• He that counts all coſts, will ne­ver put plow in the yeard.
• He that ſlayes, ſhall be ſlain.
• He that is ill of his harbery, is good of his way kenning.
• He that will not when he may, ſhall not when he wald.
• Hanging gangs by hap.
• He that comes un-call'd ſits un­ſerv'd.
• He was ſcant of news, that told his Father was hang'd.
• He that comes firſt to the hill, may ſit where he will.
• He that was born to be hang'd will never be drown'd.
• He gangs early to ſteal, that cannot ſay Na.
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• He that ſhames, ſhall be ſhent.
• He ſhould wear iron ſhone, that bides his neighbours deed.
• Half a nuch is half fill.
• Hunger is hard in a heal man.
• He is a ſairy Cook, that may not lick his own fingers.
• He is good that fail'd never.
• He plaints early that plaints on his kail.
• He that does his turn in time, ſits half idle.
• He is twiſe fain, that ſits on a flane.
• Hald in geir, helps well.
• Hunting, hawking, and para­mours, for one joy an hundred diſ­pleaſures.
• He that marries e're he be wiſe, will die e're he thrive.
• He that marries a Daw, eats mei­kle dirt.
• Huly and fair men rides far jour­neys.
• Haſt makes waſt.
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• He that looks not e're he loup, will fall e're he wit of himſelf.
• He that counts but his Hoſt, counts twiſe.
• He that hes gold may buy land.
• He ſhould have a heal pow, that cals his neighbour nikkynow.
• He is worth no weil that may bide no wae.
• He that owes the Cow goes nea­reſt her tail.
• He ſhould have a long ſhafted ſpoon that ſups kail with the Devil.
• Happy man, happy cavil.
• He ſits above that deals alkers.
• Hame is hamely, though never ſo ſeemly.
• He hes wit at will, that with an­gry heart can hold him ſtill.
• He that is hated of his ſubjects cannot be counted a King.
• Hap and an halfpennie is world geir enough.
• He is ſaireſt dung when his own wand dings him.
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• He calls me ſcabbed, becauſe I will not call him skade.
• He is blind that eats his marrow, but far blinder that lets him.
• Have God and have All.
• Honeſty is na pride.
• He that fiſhes afore the net, long e're he fiſh get.
• He tint never a Cow, that grat for a needle.
• He that hes no geir to tine, hes ſhins to pine.
• Hea, will gar a deaf man hear.
• He that takes all his geir fra himſelf, and gives it to his bairns, it were weil ward to take a mell and knock out his hairns.
• He ſits full ſtill that hes a riven briek.
• He that does bidding, deſerves na dinging.
• He that blaws beſt bears away the Horn.
• He is well ſtaikit thereben, that will neither borrow, nor len.

• ILl weeds waxes weil.
• It is ill to bring out of the fleſh that is bred in the bene.
• It is a fairy brewing that is not good in the newing.
• It's tint that is done to old men and bairns.
• It is a ſilly flock where the yow bears the bell.
• Ill win, ill warit.
• In ſome mens aught mon the old horſe die.
• It is a ſooth board that men ſees wakin.
• In ſpace, comes Grace.
• It is a ſin to lye on the Devil.
• It is cith till, that the awn ſelf will.
• It is good mows that fills the wemb.
• It is na time to ſtoup when the head is off.
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• It is fair in the hall, when beards wag all.
• It will come in an hour, that will not come in a year.
• If thou do no ill, do no ill like.
• If he ſteal not my kail, break not my dike.
• If he may ſpend meikle, put the more to the fire.
• If I can get his cart at a Waltar, I ſhall lend it a put.
• If I may not keep geeſe, I ſhall keep geſline.
• It is kindly that the poke ſair of the Herring.
• It is eith to cry yule on another man's coſt.
• Ilk a man as he loves, let him ſend to the Cooks.
• It is eith to ſwim where the head is hild up.
• It is weil warit they have ſor­row, that buyes it with their ſilver.
• If ane will not, another will.
• It is ill to take a breik off a bare.
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• It is dear bought honey that is lickt off a thorn.
• If God be with us, who will be againſt us.
• It is weil warit that waſters want geir.
• It is ill to bring but the thing that is not thereben.
• It that lies not in your gate, breaks not your ſhins.
• It is na play where ane greits, and another laughs.
• If a man knew what would be dear, he would be but Merchant for a year.
• It is true that all men ſayes.
• I have a good bow, but it is in the Caſtle.
• It is hard to fling at the brod, or kick at the prick.
• Ilk man mend ane, and all will be mendit.
• It is a ſairy collop that is tane off a Capon.
• Ill bairns are beſt heard at home.
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• It is ill to waken ſleeping dogs.
• Ill herds makes fat wolfes.
• It is hard to wive and thrive in a year.
• It is good ſleeping in a heal skin.
• It is not tint that is done to friends.
• It is ill to draw a ſtrea before an old Cat.
• It is a pain both to pay and pray.
• It is good fiſhing in drumbling waters.
• It is little of God's might, to make a poor man a Knight.
• It is good baking beſides meal.
• It is a good Gooſe that drops ay.
• It is not the habit that makes the Monck.
• It is not good to want, and to have.
• It hes neither —, nor elbow.
• I ſhall ſit on his skirt.
• It is a bare Moor that he goes o­ver, and gets not a Cow.
• I ſhall hold his Noſe to the Grindſtone.
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• It goes as meikle in his heart, as in his heel.
• It goes in at one ear, and out at the other.
• It is na mair pitty to ſee a Wo­man greit, nor to ſee a Gooſe go barefoot.
• It is well ſaid, but who will bell the Cat?
• It is ſhort while ſeen the louſe boore the langelt.
• I have a ſliddery Eel by the tail.
• It is as meet as a Sow to bear a Saddle.
• It is as meet as a thief for the widdie.
• I would I had as meikle pepper as he counts himſelf worthy Mice dirt.
• It will be an ill web to bleitch.
• I cannot find you both tails and ears.
• It is ill to make a bowing horn of a tods tail.
• If ever ye make a lucky pudding, I ſhall eat the prick.
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• It that God will give, the Devil cannot reave.
• In a good time I ſpeak it, in a better I leave it.
• It's a ſilly pack that may not pay the cuſtom.
• I have ſeen as light a green.
• It's a cold coal to blow at.
• It is a ſair feild where all are dung down.
• It's a ſair dung bairn that dare not greit.
• I wat where my own ſhoe binds me.
• If ye wanted me, and your meat, you would want ane good friend.

• KIndneſſe lies not ay in ane ſide of the houſe.
• Kings caff is worth other mens corn.
• Kame ſingle, kame ſair.
• Kings have a long ears.
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• Kindneſſe comes of will.
• Kindneſſe will creep where it may not gang.
• Kail ſpares bread.
• Kindneſſe cannot be bought for geir.
• Kameſters are ay creeſhie.
• Knowledge is eith born about.
• Kings are out of play.
• Kings and Bears oft worries their Keepers.

• LAith to bed, laith out of it.
• Like draws to like, a skabbed Horſe to an old dyke.
• Lear young, lear fair.
• Little intermitting makes good friends.
• Little ſayd is ſoon mended, and a little geir is ſoon ſpended.
• Long tarrowing takes all the thank away.
• Long lean makes hameald cattell.
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• Little wit makes meikle travel.
• Let them that are cold blow at the coal.
• Little may an old Horſe do, if he may not neigh.
• Love hes no lack.
• Long ſtanding, and little ofter­ing, makes a poor price.
• Leave the Court, ere the Court leave thee.
• Long ere you cut Falkland-wood with a Pen-knife.
• Light ſupper makes long life.
• Liked geir is half bought.
• Lucke and bone voyage.
• Like to die mends not the Kirk­yard.
• Lordſhips changes manners.
• Let him drink as he hes browen.
• Light winning makes a heavy purſe.
• Likely lies in the mire, and un­likely goes by it.
• Live, and let live.
• Love me, love my dog.
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• Laugh, and lay down again.
• Liveleſſe, faultleſſe.
• Laith to the drink, laith fra it.
• Laſt in bed, beſt heard.
• Lightly comes, lightly goes.
• Lads will be men.
• Lata is long and dreigh.
• Little wats an ill huſſie what a dinner holds in.
• Lips go, lapsago, he that eats, let him pay.
• Let alone makes many lurden.
• Little kens the wife that fits by the fire, how the wind blows cold in hurle-burle ſwyre.
• Little troubles the eye, but far leſſe the ſoul.
• Love me little, and love me long.

• MAny do lack, that yet would fain have in their pack.
• Many ſmalls makes a great.
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• Meaſure, is Treaſure.
• Mint, ere ye ſtrike.
• Many irons in the fire, part muſt cool.
• Men may buy Gold over dear.
• Many ſpeaks of Robin Hood, that never ſhot in his Bow.
• Maidens ſhould be meek while they be married.
• Many purſes holds friends toge­ther.
• Miſterfull folk muſt not be mensfull.
• Meat makes, and clothes ſhapes, but manners makes a man.
• Many hands makes light work.
• Meat is good, but Menſe is bet­ter.
• Make not twa mewes of ane daughter.
• Many maiſters, quoth the Pod­dock to the Harrow, when every tind took her a knock.
• Meat and Maſſe, never hindred man.
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• Maiſtery mowes the Meadows down.
• March Whiſquer was never a good Fiſher.
• Miſter makes men of craft.
• Make no balks of good beer­land.
• Mickle water runs, where the Miller ſleeps.
• Many brings the rake, but few the ſhovel.
• Meikle muſt a good heart thole.
• Many man makes an errand to the hall to bid the Lady good-day.
• Many cares for meal that has baken bread enough.
• Make not meikle of little.
• Meikle ſpoken, part muſt ſpill.
• Many tines the half-mark whin­ger for the half-penny whang.
• Meſſengers ſhould neither be headed nor hanged.
• Meikle hes, would ay have more.
• Men are blind in their own cauſe.
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• Muſle not the Oxens mouth.
• Many words would have meikle drink.
• Many man ſpeirs the gate he kens full well.
• Man propones, but God diſ­pones.
• Millers take ay the beſt Multar with their own Hand.
• Many man ſerves a thankleſſe maſter.
• Muſtard after meat.
• Many words fills not the furlot.
• Meikle Head, little Wit.
• Many Aunts many Eames, ma­ny kin, and few friends.
• Mends is worth miſdeeds.
• Men goes over the dike at the laicheſt.
• Might oftentimes overcomes right.

• NEireſt the King, neireſt the Widdie.
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• No man can play the fool ſo weil as the wiſe man.
• No plea is beſt.
• Nature paſſes Nurture.
• New Lords, new Laws.
• Neireſt the heart, neireſt the mouth.
• Na man can both ſup and blow together.
• Nothing comes ſooner to light, than that which is long hid.
• Nothing enters in a cloſe Hand.
• Neir is the Kirtle, but neirer is the Sark.
• Need hes no law.
• No man may puind for unkind­neſſe.
• Neireſt to the Kirk, fartheſt fra God.
• Need makes Virtue.
• Never rade, never fell.
• Nothing is difficile to a weill willed man.
• Need gars naked men run, and ſorrow gars Webſters ſpin.
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• No man can ſeek his marrow in the Kirn, ſo weil as he that hes bin in it himſelf.
• No man makes his own hap.
• No penny, no pardon.

• OF the Earth mon the dike be biggit.
• Of other mens leather, men takes large whangs.
• Over hot, over cold.
• Of two ills chooſe the leaſt.
• Over meikle of any thing is good for nothing.
• Of ane ill comes many.
• Of enough, men leave.
• Over high, over laigh.
• Of need make Virtue.
• Over faſt, over looſe.
• Of all War, Peace is the final end.
• Over great familiarity genders deſpight.
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• Of ill Debtors men takes Oattes.
• Over jolly dow not.
• Oft counting makes good friends.
• Of the abundance of the heart the mouth ſpeaketh.
• Over narrow counting culzies no kindneſſe.
• Out of ſight, out of langer.

• PUt twa half-pennies in a purſe, and they will draw together.
• Put not your hand betwixt the rind and the Tree.
• Pith is good in all Playes.
• Penny wiſe, pound fool.
• Puddings and Paramours would be hotly handled.
• Poverty parts good company, and is an enemy to vertue.
• Put a begger on horſeback, and he will ride faſt, or elſe break his neck.
• Preiſts and Doves, make foul houſes.
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• Painters and Poets may have leave to lie.
• Put your hand no farther nor your ſleeve may reek.
• Plenty, is na Dainty.
• Pride and ſweirneſſe would have meikle upholding.
• Patience perforce.
• Poor men are fain of little thing.
• Poor men (they ſay) have no ſouls.
• Poſſeſſion is worth an ill char­tour.
• Play with your peers.
• Pride will have a fall.
• Proviſion in ſeaſon makes a rich meaſon.
• Peter in, and Paul out.
• Put that in the next few.
• Put your hand into the creel, and you will get either an adder, or an Eele.

• Quhat better is the houſe that the Daw riſes in the morning.
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• Quha may wooe, but Coſt?
• Quhen the well is full, it will run over.
• Quhair the Deer is ſlain, ſome bloud will lie.
• Quhom God will help, no man can hinder.
• Quhen the eye ſees not, the heart rewes not.
• Quhen friends meets, hearts warms.
• Quhen I am dead, make me a caddel.
• Quhair the Pig breaks, let the ſhels lie.
• Quhiles the hawk hes, and whiles he hunger hes.
• Quha may hold that will away?
• Quhen wine is in, wits out.
• Quhair ſtands your great horſe?
• Quhen a man is full of luſt, his wemb is full of leaſing.
• Quhen the good-wife is fra hame, the keys are tint.
• Quhen the Steed is ſtoon, ſteik the ſtable-door.
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• Quhen Taylours are true, there is little good to ſhew.
• Quhiles thou, whiles I, ſoe goes the Bailleri.
• Quhen the craw flees, her tail follows.
• Quhen thy neighbours houſe is on fire, take tent to thy own.
• Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint.
• Quhen the fron is hot, it is time to ſtrike.
• Quhen the Play is beſt, it is beſt to lear.
• Quhen all men ſpeaks, no man hears.
• Quhen the Tod preaches, beware of the hens.
• Quhen the belly is full the bones would be at reſt.
• Quhen the cup is fulleſt, bear it eveneſt.
• Qhuen thieves reckons, leal men comes to their geir.

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• RYme ſpares no man.
• Ruſe the fair day at even.
• Rhue and time, grows both in ane garden.
• Reaſon band the man.
• Rome was not bigged on the firſt Day.
• Rackleſſe youth makes a gouſtie Age.
• Reavers ſhould not be rewers.
• Rule youth well, and eild will rule it ſell.
• Ruſe the Ford, as ye find it.

• SCots-men reckon ay fra an ill hour.
• Send, and fetch.
• Sairy be your meil-poke, and ay your nieve in the nook on't.
• Sike Prieſt, ſike Offering.
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• Swear by your brunt ſhins.
• Seying goes good cheap.
• She that takes gifts her ſelf, ſhe ſels; and ſhe that gives, does nought elſe.
• She is a ſairy mouſe, that hes but one Hole.
• Shod in the cradle, bair-foot in the Stubble.
• Spit on the Stane, and it will be wet at the laſt.
• Sike lippes, ſike Latace.
• Soon gotten, ſoon ſpended.
• Saw thin, and maw thin.
• Speir at Jock-thief my marrow, if I be a leal man.
• Seldom rides, tynes the ſpurres.
• She's a foul bird that fyles her own neſt.
• Sike man, ſike maſter.
• Seil comes not while ſorrow be gone.
• Sooth bourd is na bourd.
• Sike a man as thou would be, draw thee to ſike company.
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• Seldom lies the Devil dead by the dike ſide.
• Sike father, ſike ſon.
• Soft fire makes ſweet malt.
• Sturt payes na Debt.
• Self do, ſelf ha.
• Surfeit ſlayes mae nor the ſword,
• Shame ſhall fall them that ſhame thinks, to do themſelves a good turn.
• Shew me the man, and I will ſhew you the Law.
• Seek your ſauce where you get your Ale.
• Shro the ghueſt the houſe is the war of.
• Sokeing ſale is beſt.
• Send him to the ſea and he will not get water.
• Shame is paſt the ſhad of your haire.
• She hath paſt the diſcipline of a Tavern.
• Sain you will fra the Devil, and the Lairds bairns.
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• Small winning makes a heavy purſe.
• Sike anſwer as a man gives, ſike will he get.
• Soon ripe, ſoon rotten.

• TWo Wolves may worry ane Sheep.
• There is remead for all things but ſtarke dead.
• There is little to the rake to get after the beiſome.
• There came never ill of good Adviſement.
• There was never a Cake, but it had a make.
• There is no friend, to a friend in miſter.
• Take time while time is, for time will away.
• Tide and time, bides na man.
• Time tries the truth.
• The mair haſte, the war ſpeed.
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• The tree falls not at the firſt ſtrake.
• Thou wilt get no more of the cat, but the skin.
• There are many ſooth words ſpo­ken in bourding.
• There is na thief without a Re­ſetter.
• There is many a fair thing full falſe.
• There is na man ſo deaf as he that will not hear.
• There was never a fair word in flyting.
• The mouth that lyes, ſlayes the ſoul.
• Trot mother, trot father, how ſhould the foal amble?
• They were never fain that fidgit.
• Two fools in ane houſe, is over many.
• The day hes eyne, the night hes ears.
• The more ye tramp in a — it grows the broader.
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• That which huſſies ſpares, Cats eat.
• The weakeſt goes to the walls.
• There is no medicine for fear.
• Touch a gall'd Horſe on the back and he will fling.
• There is no fool to an old fool.
• There is none without a fault.
• The longer we live, the more farlies we ſee.
• They are welcome that brings.
• Twa Daughters, and a back­door, are three ſtark thieves.
• The Piper wants meikle, that wants the nether chafts.
• There came never a large Fart forth of a Wrans —
• Teem bags rattles.
• The thing that is friſted, is not forgiven.
• Take part of the pelf when the pack is a dealing.
• Tread on a Worm and ſhe will ſtir her tail.
• They are lightly herrite, that hes all their awn.
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• The Craw thinks her awn Bird faireſt.
• They buy good cheap that brings nothing hame.
• Thraw the wand while it is green.
• The Sowter's wife is worſt ſhod.
• They will know by an half-pen­ny if a Preiſt will take offering.
• The worſt world that ever was, ſome man wan.
• The Tailours wife is worſt clad.
• Take him up there with his five Egges, and four of them rotten.
• Thy tongue is no ſlander.
• This bolt came never out of your bag.
• There is little ſap in dry peis hools.
• Tarrowing bairns were never fat.
• The mother of miſchief is na mair nor a midgewing.
• The higher up, the greater fall.
• There are many fair words in the marriage making, but few in the tochergood paying.
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• True love kythes in time of need.
• There is nothing mair precious nor time.
• The mair coſt, the mair honour.
• The leſſe play the better.
• They that ſpeirs meikle will get wot of part.
• There is meikle between word and deed.
• There are mae wayes to the wood nor ane.
• The blind Horſe is hardieſt.
• The mae the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.
• They are good willy of their Horſe that hes none.
• Three may keep counſel if twa be away.
• They put at the Cairt, that is ay gangan.
• Twa wits is better nor ane.
• They laugh ay that wins.
• There are mae maidens, nor maukin.
• They menſe little the mouth, that bites off the noſe.
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• There is nothing ſo crouſe, as a new waſhen louſe.
• They are as wiſe, as ſpeir not.
• This world will not laſt ay.
• Twa hungry meltithes makes the third a glutton.
• The grace of God is geir enough.
• Thou ſhouldſt not tell thy foe when thy foot ſleeps.
• The greateſt Clerks are not the wiſeſt men.
• There belongs mair to a bed nor four bare leggs.
• They had never an ill day, that had a good evening.
• There is meikle hid meat in a Gooſe eye.
• Take a man by his word, and a Cow by her horn.
• The ſhots overgoes the old ſwine.
• Touch me not on the ſair heel.
• The Malt is above the Meal.
• There is a dog in the well.
• Thy Thumb is under my Belt.
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• The gooſe-pan is above the roaſt.
• The next time ye dance, wit whom ye take by the hand.