A collection of Scotch proverbs.: Collected by Pappity Stampoy.

Scotch Proverbs.

A.

• 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〉〈1 line〉

• 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.

• 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 me∣mory.
• 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 mer∣chant.

• 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-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 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 clout∣ing.

• 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.

• 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 be∣hinde.
• 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 for∣give.

• 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 pen∣ny.
• 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.)

• 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 wa∣ter.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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 wark∣ing.
• 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 mai∣dens f—the wind.
• Better held out nor put out.

• 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 fa∣shion.
• 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.

• Better be alone nor in ill com∣pany.
• 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.

C.

• 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.

• 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 condi∣tion breakes.
• Come not to the councell uncal∣led.

D.

• DEad and marriage makes Term∣day.
• 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 heir∣ship at the other.

• 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 drun∣ken 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.

E.

• 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 morning∣fother.
• Every man wisheth the water to his own milne.

• Early maister, lang knave.
• Every land hes his lauch, and e∣very co••••e hes the caff.
• Eat and drink measurely, and de∣fie 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 Hin∣der-end.
• Far fowls have fair feathers.
• Follie is a bonny Dog.
• Fair heights makes fools fain.

• 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 kis∣ses 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.

• 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 Wed∣der 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.

• Go to the Devil for Gods-sake.
• God sends meat, and the Devil sends Cooks.

H.

• 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 mother∣head, shall hear stepmotherhead.
• He that crabs without cause, should mease without mends.

• 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.

• 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 may

• 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 ne∣ver 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 un∣serv'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.

• 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 para∣mours, for one joy an hundred dis∣pleasures.
• He that marries e're he be wise, will die e're he thrive.
• He that marries a Daw, eats mei∣kle dirt.
• Huly and fair men rides far jour∣neys.
• Hast makes wast.

• 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 nea∣rest 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 an∣gry 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.

• 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.

I.

• 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.

• 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 sor∣row, that buyes 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 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.

• 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 o∣ver, 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 pitty to see a Wo∣man 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.

• 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.

K.

• 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.

• 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.

L

• 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.

• 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 ofter∣ing, 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.
• Lordships changes manners.
• Let him drink as he hes browen.
• Light winning makes a heavy purse.
• Likely lies in the mire, and un∣likely goes by it.
• Live, and let live.
• Love me, love my dog.

• 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.

M.

• MAny do lack, that yet would fain have in their pack.
• Many smalls makes a great.

• 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 toge∣ther.
• 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 bet∣ter.
• Make not twa mewes of ane daughter.
• Many maisters, quoth the Pod∣dock to the Harrow, when every tind took her a knock.
• Meat and Masse, never hindred man.

• Maistery mowes the Meadows down.
• March Whisquer was never a good Fisher.
• Mister makes men of craft.
• Make no balks of good beer∣land.
• 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 whin∣ger 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.

• Musle not the Oxens mouth.
• Many words would have meikle drink.
• Many man speirs the gate he kens full well.
• Man propones, but God dis∣pones.
• 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, ma∣ny kin, and few friends.
• Mends is worth misdeeds.
• Men goes over the dike at the laichest.
• Might oftentimes 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 in a close Hand.
• Neir is the Kirtle, but neirer is the Sark.
• Need hes no law.
• No man may puind for unkind∣nesse.
• 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 bin in it himself.
• No man makes his own hap.
• No penny, no pardon.

O.

• 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.

• 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.

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 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.

• 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 char∣tour.
• 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.

Q.

• Quhat better is the house that the Daw rises in the morning.

• 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.

• 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.

R.

• 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.

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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• The tree falls not at the first strake.
• Thou wilt get no more of the cat, but the skin.
• There are many sooth words spo∣ken in bourding.
• There is na thief without a Re∣setter.
• 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.

• 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 back∣door, 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.

• 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-pen∣ny 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Unskilfull mediciners, and horse∣marshels slayes, both man and beast.
• Use makes perfectnesse.

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 coptan.
• Wrang hes no warrand.
• Wont beguil'd the Lady.
• Wit in a poor mans head, and mosse in a mountain, avails nothing.
• Weil is that weil does.

• Well good-mother-daughter.
• Whatrax of the feed, where the frendship dow not.
• Wood in wildernesse, & strength in a fool.
• Weapons bodes peace.
• Wiles help weak folk.
• Waken not sleeping dogs.
• Women and bairns keep counsell of that they ken not.
• We hounds slew the Hare, quoth the messoun.
• Wishers and woulders are poor householders.
• Weil worth aw, that gars the plough draw.
• Words are but winde, but dunts are the Devill.
• With empty hand no man should hawks allure.
• Wark bears witnesse who weil does.
• Wrang hearing makes wrang re∣hearsing.
• Wealth gars wit waver.

• Weil bides, weil betides.
• Wrong count is no payment.

Y.

• YE should be a King ••f your word.
• Your winning is no my tinsel.
• Ye may puind for debt, but not for unkindnesse.
• Ye learn your Father to get bairns.
• Ye will break your crag as soon as your fast in his house.
• Ye ride a bootlesse errand.
• Ye may not sit in Rome, and strive with the Pope.
• Ye seek grace at a gracelesse 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 rime but ane.
• Ye may drink of the burn, but not bite of the brae.
• Ye cannot make a silk purse of a sows lug.
• Ye have a face to God, and an∣other to the Devil.
• Ye breed of the Millers dog, ye lick your lips ere the poke be open.
• Ye would doe little for God, and the Devil were dead.
• Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry.