Scottish Text Society publications > New series > Fergusson's Scottish proverbs from the original print of 1641

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[Cf. Hwych so the mon soweth al swuch he schal
mowe. ‘ Prov. of Alfred,’ A 82.]
[Cf. Galatians vi. 7.]
[That that rathest rypeth roteth most saunest. ‘Piers
Plowman,’ C. XIII., 223.]
[Soone ripe soone rotten. Heywood, p. 47.]
[Cf. Selfe doe, selfe have. Heywood, p. 33.]
Dahet habbe that ilke best
That fuleth his owe nest. ‘ Owl and Nightingale,’ 11.
99-100.
[It is a foule bird that fyleth his owne nest. Heywood,
P- 123.]
[To aske my fellow whether I be a theefe. Heywood,
p. 126.]
[Soone gotten soone spent. Heywood, p. 131.}
[I holde a mouses herte not worth a leek
That hath but oon hole for to sterte to. Chaucer,
‘C. T,’D 572-3.]
[For ye devoure widdowes houses, even under a colour
of long prayers. Matt, xxiii. 14.]
[The pot so long to the water goth
Till at last it commeth home broken. Heywood,
p. 142.]
Airly sporne late speid. ‘ Golagros and Gawaine ’ (? by
Huchown, C. 1360.), 1. 879.
“ Mauvais haste n’est preus.” ‘ Renart le Nouvel,’ by
Jacquemars Gielee, at the close of the 13th cent.,
referred to by Amours in ‘ Scottish Alliterative
Poems,’ p. 278.
For lidder speid cumis of airlie spume. Wm. Stewart’s
‘ Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland ’ (a metrical
version of Boece, C. 1531), Vol. II., p. 150.
[Ay fleeth the tyme it nil no man abyde. Chaucer,
<C. T.,’ E 119.]
[The tide tarieth no man. Heywood, p. 11.]
[Tread a woorme on the tayle, and it must turne agayne.
Heywood, p. 111.]
[The crow thinketh her owne birds fairest in the wood.
Heywood, p. 106.]
[Who is worse shod than a shoemaker’s wife. Heywood,
p. 70.]
[Take time when time cometh lest time steale away.
Heywood, p. 11.]
[Ful oft in game a sooth I have herd seye. Chaucer,
‘C. T.,’ B 3154.]
[Where there be no receivers there be no thieves. Hey¬
wood, p. 84.]