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115 The obje<ft of fcorn is better than that of envy,
I like not the flight of the aged.
I like not the fmooth addrefs of the robber.
Much may be faid by the head that's unhurt.-
Much will a flout heart fuffer 'ere it break.
120 Better be envied than pitied.
The fare of the Jirft night is better than the fare of
the laft.
You have been long a coming, and you are come
too foon.
Oft the puny comes through, while the vigorous
drop.
I like not the fìrange gueft, who has a loud tongue.
125 Slow is the fluggard to go to bed, and feven times
flower to rife.
It is bad meat that will not take fait, and as bad a
perfon that will not take advice.
The refufe of the good is preferable to the beft of
the HI.
He would make but a poor figure in a rainy day.
. Fog in winter, is blown fnow in the fpring.
130 Rather pretty than handlbme.
A man boldly takes of his own.
He is a fool that will take no advice, and a fool
that takes every advice.
The flock that is fair, will raife up the head of the
miftrefs though it be foul.
It is bad with him who meets with all he can bear.
135 It is a little hindrance, that will not feem great in
harveft.
The lazy at home is alert abroad.
Two at a difh are too many, when there is but one
fervice.
Birds muft live, though they be not hawks.
The tenants are fixonger than the laird.
140 The eye that is hurt, is ever fearful of harm.
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