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SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
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[MANUSCRIPT
1077] Nearest the kirk farthest from God
Nearest the king nearest the widdie
New lords new lawes
1080] Nearest the heart nearest the mouth
Neid gares naked men run
Neir is my coat but nearer is my sark.
Nothing is difficle to a willing mynd.
No man can mak his awin fortune
Na pley is best
Nothing comes sooner to light then that whilkis long hid
No man can pley the fool so weil as ane wyse man [
Na penny no par done
Na man can seek his marrow so weil in the kirne as he
that hes bein in it himself
1090] Now I am better to speak to nor I wes
No cattell no cair no pennie no wair
Non is good bot God.
Not the gift but the giver
No man can thryve heir for throng
No man can serv tuo maisters
Nevie nevie nak qwMk hand wil yow tak.
No knave to the learned knave
1098] No penny no paternoster 1
[manuscript
O
1099] Over fast over loose
Of eneugh men leaves
Over grit homlynes engenders despyt
1102] Oft compting maks good freinds
662. AR K He H 663. He 664. K He H
*668. Cf. AR K.
MS. 1078. AR MS. 1080. K 1081. H
*1098. KH 1101. K.
1 In a later hand.
F
666. K *667.
*1092. *1095.
83
[MANUSCRIPT
1077] Nearest the kirk farthest from God
Nearest the king nearest the widdie
New lords new lawes
1080] Nearest the heart nearest the mouth
Neid gares naked men run
Neir is my coat but nearer is my sark.
Nothing is difficle to a willing mynd.
No man can mak his awin fortune
Na pley is best
Nothing comes sooner to light then that whilkis long hid
No man can pley the fool so weil as ane wyse man [
Na penny no par done
Na man can seek his marrow so weil in the kirne as he
that hes bein in it himself
1090] Now I am better to speak to nor I wes
No cattell no cair no pennie no wair
Non is good bot God.
Not the gift but the giver
No man can thryve heir for throng
No man can serv tuo maisters
Nevie nevie nak qwMk hand wil yow tak.
No knave to the learned knave
1098] No penny no paternoster 1
[manuscript
O
1099] Over fast over loose
Of eneugh men leaves
Over grit homlynes engenders despyt
1102] Oft compting maks good freinds
662. AR K He H 663. He 664. K He H
*668. Cf. AR K.
MS. 1078. AR MS. 1080. K 1081. H
*1098. KH 1101. K.
1 In a later hand.
F
666. K *667.
*1092. *1095.
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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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