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A man's kinfman is dear, but his foiter brother is t
part of his heart, (s)
I-70 The forry fellow is never ready to give.
I have loft whom I would have preferved, but who
would not have been better alive.
Grafs cannot grow on the high way ;
Neither will a rolling (lone gather mofs.
You will not believe death till you fee the buriaf.
175 I' have heard the cuckow with a falling ftomach ;
I have feen the foal from behind ; I have feen
the (hail upon the bare ftone ; I knew that the
year was not to be favourable, (t)
No plaifter is applied to a threat. -
There is no good that may not be marred.
The prieft drank no more than he had.
Bread when baked, and ftraw when threfhed, are little
1 pared.
1 80 A clean bird comes not from the kite's neft.
They never provoked with the fcabbard, who did not
receive with the fword.
None gives provocation but gets with a return.
No refuie is worfe than that of the corn pickle *.
I pity not the figh of my ftep-mother.
185 Ye do not take heed till the prick is in the eye.
He will let none go with a forrowful heart.
As unerring as the hand of Conloch.
The greateft clerk is not the wifeft man.
Good and quickly feidom meet.
190 There is no difference between a wife man and a
fool, but take the good when it is offered.
(t) Thefe are bad omens among the fuperftitious ; many
•/idiculous obfervations, ftiil held by them, had their rife in
rime of Heathenifm ; thofe who cannot otherwife account
for them, father them upon the Roman Catholics.
Said of mean gentry.
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