Adagia Scotica OR A COLLECTION OF Scotch Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases. Collected by R. B. Very Useful, and delightful. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. LONDON, Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Gresham College 1668. Scotch Proverbs. A. A Fair Bride is soon buskt, and a short Horse is soon wispt, A friend's Dinner is soon dight. All is not in hand that helps. All the Keys of the Country 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 blithe heart makes a blomand visage. A gentle Horse would not be over fair spurred. 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 blithe heart. A Vaunter and a Liar is both one thing. A dumb man won never land. An old hound bites fair. A slothful man is a Beggar's brother. As soon comes the Lambskin to the market as the old Sheep's. At open doors Dogs come in. An hungry man sees far. All is not tint that is in peril. As the Sow fills the draff sours. A good asker should have a good nay-say. A good ruser was never a good rider. A Liar should have a good memory. Ane Beggar is wae, another by the gate gay. A wight man never wanted a weapon. A halfpenny 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 hame. 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. Ane year a Nurish, seven years a Daw. Ane ill word begets another, and it were all the Bridge at London. A Wool-seller ken a Wool-buy-er. 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 racklesses hussy makes money theives. A hungry louse bites fair. Anes payit never crave it. A fools bolt is soon shot. Anes wood, never wise, ay the worse. As the Carl 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 looked in the teeth. An old seck craves meikle clouting. A traveled man hath leave to lie. A fool when he hes spoken, hes all done. A man that is warned, is half-armed. A murky mirror is a man's mind. A full heart lied never. A good Cow may have an ill Calf. A dumb man holds all. A Cock is crouse upon his own midding. A greedy man God hates. As fair fights Wrans as Cranes. A skade man's head is soon broke. A yield Sow was never good to gryses. An unhappy man's Cairt is eith to tumble. As meikle upwith, as meikle downwith. A new Bissom sweeps clean. A skabbed sheep files all the flock. A tarrowing bairn was never fat. A tratler is worse than a thief. An ill shearer got never a good hook. A bairn fire dreads. All the speed is in the spurs. A word before is worth two behind. 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 than he hath good of. A fool may give a wise man a counsel. A man may speir the gate to Rome. As long lives the merry-man, as the wretch, for all the craft he can. All walled have all, all walled forgive. 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 went 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 do full ill. An ill servant will never be a good master. An hired Horse tired never. All the winning is in the first buying. An unch is a feast, (of Bread and Cheese.) An Horse may snapper on four feet. 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 barn 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 woo where he will, but wed where he is weard. A mean pot played never even. Among twenty four fools not ane wise man. Ane man's meat is another man's poison. A fool will not give his Bauble for the Tower of London. A foul foot makes a fon wemb. A man is a Lion in his own cause. 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 lie. A yule feast may be quit at Pasch. A good dog never barked but a been. 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 bears. All Houndless man comes to the best Hunting. All things hes an end, a Pudding hes twa. All is well that ends well. As good hadst the stirep as he that loups on. A begun work is half ended. A Scots man is ay wise behind hand. A new tout in an old horn. A broken 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 hath an ill gansel. All are not maidens, that wears bare hair. A Mach and a Horshoe are both alike. Airly crooks the Tree that good Cammock should be. An ounce of mother-wit, is worth a pound of clergy. 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. B. BEtter give nor take. Better Lang little, then soon right nought. Better hand lose, 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 neighbour's skaith, nor by your own. Better half an egg, nor teem doup. Better apple given, nor eaten. Better a Dog faun, nor bark on you. Boden gear stinks. Board neither with me, nor with my Honour. Betwixt twa stools the arse falls down. Better bide the Cooks nor the Mediciners. Better bairns great, 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 itself. Better a wit coft; nor two for nought. Better good sale, nor good Ale. Better woo over midding, nor over moss. Better happy to court, nor good service. Blaw the wind ne'er so fast, it will lowen at the last. Better be happy nor wise. Bind fast, find fast. Better plays a full wemb nor a new coat. Better say, Here it is, nor, Here it was. Better old debts nor old sairs. Board not with Bawty, fear lest he by't ye. Better a fowl in hand nor twa flying: Better rue sit, nor rue flit. Better spare at the breird nor at the bottom. 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. Better have a mouse in the pot as no flesh. Better sit still, 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 pitied. Better a little fire that warms, nor a meikle that burns. Be the same thing that thou walled be called. 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 witted. Better be alone nor in ill company. Better a chigging mother, nor a riding father, Better never begun, nor never endit. Bonny silver is soon spendit. Before I wein, but now I wat. C. Courtesy is cumbersome to them that ken it not. Come it air, come it late, in May comes the Cow-quake. Court to the Town, and whore to the window. Calk is na shears Clap a carl on the culls, 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. Cats eat 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 breaks, Come not to the council uncalled. D. DEad and marriage makes Term-day. Do weil and have weil. Do as ye walled be done to. Do in Hill, as ye walled 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. Do weil and doubt no man; and do weil, and doubt all men. Do the likeliest, and God will do the best. Drunken wife got ay the drunken penny. Drink and drought comes findle together. Dead men bites not. Daffing dough nothing. Dog's will red swine. Drive out the inch as thou hast done the span, Dirt parts company. E. EVery man can rule an ill wife, but he that hes Her. Eaten meat is good to pay. Eild walled have Honour. Evening Orts is good morningfother. Every man wisheth the water to his own milne. Early master, long knave. Every land hes his lauch, and every corn hes the caff. Eat and drink measurely, and defy 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. F FOul water slokens fire. Fools are fain of flitting. Falshood made never a fair Hinder end. Far fowls have fair feathers Folly is a bonny Dog. Fair heights makes fools fain. Freedom is a fair thing. For a tint thing care not. Fool haste is no speed. For fault of wisemen, fools sits on binks. Forbidden a fool a thing, and that he will do. Fools set far trifles. For love of the Nuris, many kisses the Bairh. Fair words broke never bain, foul words many ane. Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. Fools are fain of right nought. Far sought, and dear bought, is good for Ladies. Fellow love, & it will flee from. thee; leave it, & it will follow thee. Fill fow, and had fow, makes a stark man. Fool's should have no chappin sticks. Fiddler's dogs and flies, come to the feast uncalled. Fire is good for the farcy. Few words sufficeth to a wise man. Friendship stands not in One side. G. GIve never the Wolf the Wedder to keep. God's help is nearer nor the fair evin. Good wine needs not a wisp. Grace is best for the man. Go shoe the Geese. Giff, gaff, makes good friends. Good cheer, and good cheap, garres many haunt the House. God sends men cold, as they have clothes to. should be ta'en in part of payment. God sends never the mouth, but the meat with it. Girn when you knit, and laugh when ye lose. Go to the Devil for God's sake. God sends meat, and the Devil sends Cooks. H. HAd-I-fish was never good with Garlic. 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 blows, his land will lie ley. He rides sicker, that fell never. Help thyself, and God will help thee. He that will not hear mother-head, shall hear stepmother-head. He that crabs without cause, should mess without mends. He that spares to speak, spares to speed. He that may not do as he would, money do as he may. He is well easit that hes ought of his own, when others go to meat. He that does ill hates the light. He that speaks the things he should not, hears the things he would not. He that is evil deemed is half hanged. 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 high, 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. He that borrows and bigs; makes feasts and things; 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 Carls head bare. Hear all parties. He that is red for windlestaws, should nor sleep in lees. He that is afraid 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 asairy beggar that may not go by ane man's door. Hall-binks are sliddery. He is not the best Wright that hews the maniest speals. He that evil does, never good weins. Hoordom and grace, can never bide in one place. He that counts all costs, will never put plough in the yard. He that slays, 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 walled. Hanging gangs by hap. He that comes uncalled sits unserved. He was scant of news, that told his Father was hanged. He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will. He that was born to be hanged will never be drowned. He gangs early to steal, that cannot say Na. He that shames, shall be shent. He should wear iron shone, that bides his neighbour's 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 failed never. He plaints early that plaints on his kail. He that does his turn in time, sits half idle. He is twice fain, that sits on a stane. Hauled in geir, helps well. Hunting, hawking, and paramours, for one joy an hundred displeasures. He that marries he be wise, will die e'er he thrive. He that marries a Daw, eats meikle dirt. Huly and fair men rides far journeys. Hast makes waist. He that looks not e'er he loup, will fall e'er he wit of himself. He that counts but his Host, counts wise. He that hes gold may buy land. He should have a heal pow, that calls his neighbour nikky now. He is worth not 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 aikers 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's geir enough. He is fairest dung when his own wand dings him. 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 he fish get. He tint never a Cow, that great 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 & 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 staik it thereben, that will neither borrow, nor len. I. ILl weeds waxes weil. It is ill to bring out of the flesh that is bred in the bene. It is a sairy 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 you bears the bell. Ill win, ill warit. In some men's aught money the old horse die. It is a sooth board that men sees wakin. In space, comes Grace. It is a sin to lie on the Devil. It is eith till, that the awn self will. It is good mows that fills the wemb. It is na time to stoop when the head is off. 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 dyke. If he may spend meikle, put the more to the fire. If I can get his cart at a Wolter, I shall lend it a put. If I may not keep geese, I shall keep gesline. It is kindly that the poke fair of of the Herring. It is eith to cry yule on another man's cost. Ilk a man as he loves, let him fend to the Cooks. It is eith to swim where the head is held up. It is weil warit they have sorrow, that buys it with their silver. If ane will not, another will It is ill to take a breik off a bare— It is dear bought honey that is licked 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 says. I have a good bow, but it is in the Castle. It is hard to fling at the broad, or kick at the prick. Ilk man mend mend ane, and all will be mendit. It is a sairy collop that is ta'en off a Capon. Ill bairns are best heard at home. It is ill to waken sleeping dogs. Ill herds makes fat wolves. 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 Monk. 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, 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 pity 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 boor 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 widdle. 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. 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's a fair field where all are dung down. It's a fair dung bairn that dare not great. I wat where my own shoe binds me. If you wanted me and your meat, you would want ane good friend. K. Kindness lies not ay in ane side of the house. King's caff is worth other men's corn. Kame single, kame sair. King's have a long ears. Kindness comes of will. Kindness will creep where it may not gang. Kail spares bread. Kindness cannot be bought for geir. Kamesters are ay creeshie. Knowledge is eith born about. King's are out of play. Kings and Bears oft worries their Keepers. L LAith to bed, laith out of it. Like draws to like, a skabbed Horse to an old dyke. Lear young, lear fair. Little intermitted makes good friends. Little said is soon mended, and a little geir is soon spended. Long tarrowed takes all the thank away. Long lean makes hameald cattle. 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 offering, 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 Kirk-yard. Lordship's changes manners. Let him drink as he hes browen. Light winning makes a heavy purse. Likely lies in the mere, and unlikely goes by it, Live, and let live. Love me, love my dog. Laugh, and lay down again. Liveless, faultless. 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 hussy what a dinner holds in. Lips go, laps go, he that eats, let him pay. Let alone makes many lurden. Little ken the wife that sits by the fire, how the wind blows cold in hurle-burle swyre. Little troubles the eye, but far less the soul. Love me little, and love me long. M. MAny do lack, that yet would fain have in their pack Many smalls makes a great. Measure, is treasure. Mint ye strike. Many irons in the fire, part must cool. Men may buy Gold over dear. Many speaks of Robin Hood, which 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 Mensae is better. Make not twa mews of ane daughter. Many masters, quoth the Poddock to the Harrow, when every tind took her a knock. Meat and Mass, never hindered man. Mastery mows the Meadows down. March Wisquer was never a good Fisher. Mister makes men of craft. Make no balks of good beerland. Much water runs, where the Miller sleeps. Many brings the rake, but few the shovel. Meikle must a good heart those. 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 times the half-mark whinger for the halfpenny whang. Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged. Meikle hes, would ay have more. Men are blind in their own cause. Mussel not the Oxens' mouth. Many words would have meikle drink. Many man speirs the gate he ken full well. Man propones, but God dispones. Miller's take ay the best Multur with their own Hand. Many man serves a thankless 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 often time's overcomes right. N. NEirest the King, neirest the Widdie. 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 into a close hand. Near is the Kirtle, but neirer is the Sark. Need hes no law. No man may puind for unkindness. 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. No man can seek his marrow in the Kirn, so weil as he that hes been in it himself. No man makes his own hap. No penny, no pardon. O. OF the Earth mon the dike be biggit. Of other men's 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 cometh many. Of enough, men leave, Over high, over laigh. Of need make Virtue. Over fast, over lose. Of all War, Peace is the final end. Over great familiarity genders despite, Of ill Debtors men takes Oattes. Over jolly dough not. Oft counting makes good friends. Of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Over narrow counting, culȝies no kindness. Out of sight, out of langer. P. 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 Plays. Penny wise, pound fool. Puddings and Paramours would be hotly handled. Poverty parts good company, and is an enemy to virtue. Put a beggar on horseback, and he will ride fast, or else break his neck. Priests and Doves, make foul houses. 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 much upholding. Patience perforce. Poor men are fain of little thing. Poor men (they say) have no souls Possession is worth an ill charter. 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 Eel. Q. Quhat better is the house that the Daw rises in the morning. Quha may woo, but Cost? Quhen the well is full, it will run over. Quhair the Deer is slain, some blood will lie. Quhom God will help, no man can hinder. Quhen the eye sees not, the heart rues not. Quhen friends meets, hearts warms. Quhen I am dead, make me a caddel. Quhair the Pig breaks, let the shells 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 goodwife is fra hame the keys are tint. Quhen the Steed is stoon, steik the stable door. Quhen Tailors are true, there is little good to show. Quhiles thou, whiles I, so goes the Bailleri. Quhen the craw flees, her tail follows. Quhen thy neighbour's house is on fire, take tent to thy own. Quhen the goodman is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint. Quhen the iron 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. Quhen thiefs reckons, leal men comes to their geir. R. Rhyme spares not 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. Rackless youth makes a goustie Age. Reavers should not be rewers. Rule youth well, & eild will rule it sell. Ruse the Ford, as ye find it. S. 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. Swear by your brunt shins. saying goes good cheap. She that takes gifts herself, she sells; and she that gives, does nought else. She is a sary 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 lips, 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 spurs. She's a foul bird that files her own nest. Sike man, sike master. Seil comes not while sorrow be gone. Sooth board is na board. Sike a man as thou would be, draw thee to sike company. Seldom lies the Devil dead by the dike side. Sike Father, sike son. Soft fire makes sweet malt. Sturt pays na Debt. Self do, self ha'. Surfeit slays mae nor the sword. Shame shall fall them that shame thinks, to do themselves a good turn. Show me the man and I will show you the Law. Seek your sauce where you get your Ale. Shro the guest the house is the war of. Sokeing sale is best. Send him to the Sea and he will not get water. Shame is passed the shed of your hair. She hath passed the discipline of a Tavern. Sain you will fra the Devil, and the Lairds bairns. Small winning makes a heavy purse. Sike answer as a man gives, sike will he get. Soon ripe, soon rotten, T. TWo Wolves may worry ane Sheep. There is remead for all things but stark 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. The tree falls not at the first strake. Thou wilt get no more of the eat, but the skin. There are many sooth words spoken in boarding. 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 flytting. The mouth that lies, slays the soul Trot Moher, trot Father, how should the foal amble? They were never fain that fidgit Two fools in ane house, is over many. The day hes eyen, the night hes ears. The more ye tramp in a— it grows the brother. That which hussies spares, Cats eat. The weakest goes to the walls. There is no medicine for fear. Touch a galled 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 back door are three stark thiefs. 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 dealing. Tread on a Worm and she will stir her tail. They are lighlty herit, that hes all their awn. The Craw thinks her own 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 halfpenny if a Priest will take offering. The worst world that ever was, some man wan. The Tailor's wife is worst clad. Take him up there with his five Eggs 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. True love kythes in time of need. There is nothing mair precious nor time. The mair cost, the mair honour. The less play the better. They that speirs meikle, will get wots of part. There is meikle between word and deed. There are mae ways 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 council if twa be away. They put at the Cairt, that is ay went. Twa wit is better nor ane. They laugh ay that wins. There are mae maidens, nor malkin. They mense little the mouth, that bites off the nose. There is nothing so course, as a new washen louse. They are as wise, as spear 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 legs. 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 fair heel. The Malt is above the Meal. There is a dog in the well. Thy thumb is under my Belt. The goose-pan is above the roast. The next time ye dance, wit whom ye take by the hand. U. USe your friend as ye would have him. Unskilful mediciners, and horse-marshels, slays both man & beast. Use makes perfectness. W. Well done, soon done. Wonder lasts but nine nights in a Town. We have a craw to pluck. Whatrax my Jo, I ken your coptaen. Wrong hes no warrant. Want beguiled the Lady. Wit in a poor man's head, and moss in a mountain, avails nothing Weil is that weil does. Well good-mother-daughter. Whatrax of the seed, where the friendship dow not. Wood in wilderness, & strength in a fool. Weapons bodes peace. Wiles help weak folk. Waken not sleeping dogs. Women and bairns keep counsel of that they ken not. We hounds slew the Hare-quoth the messoun. Wishers and woulders are poor householders. Weil worth awe, that gars the plough draw. Words are but wind, but dunts are the Devil. With empty hand no man should hawks allure. Wark bears witness who weil does. Wrong hearing makes wrong rehearsing. Wealth gars wit waver. Weil bids, weil betides. Wrong count is no payment. Y. YE should be a king of your word. Your winning is not my tinsel. Ye may puind for debt, but not for unkindness. Ye learn your Father to get bairns. Ye will break your crag as soon as your fast in his house. Ye ride a bootless errand. Ye may not sit in Rome, and strive with the Pope. Ye seek grace at a graceless face. Ye strive against the stream. Ye drive a Snail to Rome. Youth never casts for peril. Ye seek hot water under cold ice. Ye breed of the cat, ye would fain have fish, but ye have na will to wet your feet. Youth and age will never agree. Ye will get war bodes ere Beltan. Ye breed of the gouk, ye have not a rhyme but ane. Ye may drink of the bourn, but not by't of the braes. Ye cannot make a silk purse of a sows lug. Ye have a face to God, and another to the Devil. Ye breed of the Miller's dog, ye lick your lips ere the poke be open Ye would do little for God, and the Devil were dead. Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry. FINIS.