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SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
65
[MANUSCRIPT
814] It is a pet1 quhilk wil not cling
It is hard to fling at the brod
It is hard to kick at the prick
Ukane mend on & al wil be mended
It is a shamed collop is gotten of a capon
111 bairnes ar best hard at home
820] It is ill to waken sleiping dogs
111 birds maks fatt wolfs
It is hard to wyve & thryv in on yeir
It is good sleeping in a whol skin
It is not tint that is don to a freind
It is ill to draw ane strae befor ane old cat
It is pain both to pay & pray
It is good fishing in drumly waters
It is litle of Gods might to mak a poor man a knight
It is good baiking besyd meall
830] It is ane good goose that drops ay
It is not the habit maks the monk. Cuculus non facit
monachum
It is not good to want and have
It is nather erse nor elbow
I shall sit on his skirt
It is a bair moor he goes over & gaits not ane kow
I shall hold his nose in the grindstone
It goes als much in his hart as his heal
It goes in at the on ear and out at the other
839] It is short whyl sine louse boor langelt
,
524. AR K 525. AR K H 527. K 529. AR, cf. K H
532. K 533. KH *534. KHe 535. K He.
MS. 830. H 831. He.
1 peat.
65
[MANUSCRIPT
814] It is a pet1 quhilk wil not cling
It is hard to fling at the brod
It is hard to kick at the prick
Ukane mend on & al wil be mended
It is a shamed collop is gotten of a capon
111 bairnes ar best hard at home
820] It is ill to waken sleiping dogs
111 birds maks fatt wolfs
It is hard to wyve & thryv in on yeir
It is good sleeping in a whol skin
It is not tint that is don to a freind
It is ill to draw ane strae befor ane old cat
It is pain both to pay & pray
It is good fishing in drumly waters
It is litle of Gods might to mak a poor man a knight
It is good baiking besyd meall
830] It is ane good goose that drops ay
It is not the habit maks the monk. Cuculus non facit
monachum
It is not good to want and have
It is nather erse nor elbow
I shall sit on his skirt
It is a bair moor he goes over & gaits not ane kow
I shall hold his nose in the grindstone
It goes als much in his hart as his heal
It goes in at the on ear and out at the other
839] It is short whyl sine louse boor langelt
,
524. AR K 525. AR K H 527. K 529. AR, cf. K H
532. K 533. KH *534. KHe 535. K He.
MS. 830. H 831. He.
1 peat.
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| Description | Together with a larger manuscript collection of about the same period. Edited by Erskine Beveridge. With facsimiles. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1924. Completed and extended after the editor's death by J.D. Westwood. cf. Preface. |
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