English
s 1865 F Fair words butter no parsnips 658 Fair words don’t fill the pocke 1349 Fame is a magnifying glass 1546 Familiarity breeds contempt 2097 Far fetch’d and dear bought is good for ladies 1530 Far folks fare well and fair children die 1631 Faults are (hick where love is thin, 151 Fear not the loss of the bell more- than the loss of the steeple 676 Fiddlers’ dogs an’ flees come to a feast unca’d 1448 First creep, then go 668 Fish follow the bait 403 Fools are pleased with their own blunders 416 Fortune and glass soon break, alas ! 1531 Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well 561 Fortune is like the market, where if you bide your time, the price will fall 1477 Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s gate 1477 INDEX II. Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honor lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost 1108 Foster a raven and it will peck out you*eyes 665 Friends are the nearest relations 909 From a clear spring clear water flows 291 From one circumstance, judge of all 1921 From to-morrow till to-morrow time goes a long journey 2091 V Full o£courtesy, full of craft 5 G Give a dog an ill name, and you may as well hang him 1928 Give a clown your finger and he will take your whole hand 923 Give a rogue an inch and he will take an ell 280 Give a thing and take again, And you shall ride in hell’s wain 81 Give aud spend, and God will send 283 Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell 923 Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down 1290 Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have hut few 34^ Give the piper a penny, and two pence to leave off 1411 Go forward, and fall; go backward, and mar ' all 1751 Go neither to a Wedding nor a christening with¬ out invitation 68 God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest 2401 God helps those who help themselves 1183 God is where He was 1160 God never sends mouths, but he sends meat 904 Gold is no balm to a wounded spirit 1690 Good and quickly seldom meet 853 Good blood cannot lie 924 Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names 1657 Good riding at two anchors men have told; For if one break, the other may hold 107 Good words and no deeds are jushes and reeds 658 Great barkers are nae biters 128 “ Gre^it cry and little wool” as the fellow said when he sheared the pig 661 Great vaunters, little doers 1708 Grief borders on the extremes of gladness 2112 H Half a loaf is better than no bread 312 Halt not before a cripple 30 Hand washes hand. ancLfinger finger 480 Happy go lucky 1362 Happy is he who owes nothing 88 Happy is the wife who is married to a mother¬ less son 57 Haste trips up its own heels 853 He brings a staff to brak his ain head 977 He brings his machines after the war is over 2069 He cannot say bo to a goose 616 He draws water with a sieve 1311 He earns a farthing and has a penn’orth of thirst 1920 He eatsi till he sweats, and works till he freezes 1070 He falls into the pit who leads another into it 920 He fired at the pigeon and he killed the crow 1404 He has a good estate, but the right owner keeps it from him 411 He has given the hen for the egg 500 He has sfiut up his shop windows 1957 He has two stomachs to eat, and one to work 73 He is a poor cook that cannot lick his own fing¬ ers 521 He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his fingers 2486 He is able to buy an abbey 614 He is building a bridge over the sea 2096 He is burnt to the socket 357 He is bis father’s son 176 He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet 1425 He is no friend that eats his own by himself and mine with me 1709 He is not worth his salt 1069 He is on his last,legs 1956 He is on the high ropes 1520 He is rich enough who owes nothing 8 ( 7 He is so wary that he sleeps like a hare with his eyes open 1427 He is teaching a pig to play on the flute 778 He laughs at scars who never felt a wound 398 He lies as fast as a dog can trot 2226 He’ll flay a flint 1963 He looks as if butter would not melt in his mouth 239 He looks for his ass and sits on its back 332 He may lie boldly who comes from afar 1622 He paints the dead 2052 He robs Peter to pay Paul 576 He ruins himself in promises, and clears him¬ self by giving nothing 1706 He’s a long-bow man 252 He’s blown up 1957 He said devil, but meant you 65 ( 140 ) INDEX II. He sets the wolf to guard the sheep 2387 He shall have the king’s horse 2572 He takes a spear to kill a fly 1439 He that buildeth upon the highway hath mariy advisers 512 .He that can’t ride a gentle horse, must not at¬ tempt to back a mad colt 304 He that courts injury will obtain it 516 He that doth lend doth lose his friend 86 He that goes a beast to Rome, a beast returns 609 He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing 402 He that has a muckle nose thinks ilka ane is speaking o’t 786 He that has nothing is frighted at nothing 819 He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live 241 He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned 1984 He that was born a hen loves to be scratching 1977 He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing 2369 He that will steal an egg will steal an ox 2352 He went out shearing and he came home shorn 380 He who begins ilf finishes worse 42 He who has no children knows not what is love 808 IJe who has no home of his own is everywhere at home 513 He who has no voice in the valley, will have none in the council 266 He who is born to misfortune stumbles as he goes, and though he fall on his back will fracture his nose 1146 He who lends to the poor, gets his interest from God 519 He who manages other people’s wealth does not go supperless to bed 2486 He who praises in praesentia, and abuses in absentia, have with him pestilentia 384 He who spits against heaven will have it fall on his face 2622 He who touches pitch defiles himself 336 Hear, see, and say nothing, if you wish to live in peace 919 Hear the other side, and believe little 918 Hens are ay free o’ horse corn 910 Hide nothing from thy minister, physician, and lawyer 1664 Hills see, walls hear 2456 Him that falls all the world run over 908 His bread fell into the honey 1886 Honey in his mouth, words of milk Gall in his heart, fraud in his deeds 4 Hope and expectation are a fool’s income 38 How easily a hair gets into butter! 2004 Humility often gains more than pride 2609 Hunger is the best sauce 156 Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings 606 I I ask your pardon, coach ; I thought you were a wheelbarrow when 1 stumbled over you 1862 I dont want it, I dont want it, but put it into my hood 36 I meant to cross myself and put out one of my eyes 114 I taught you to swim, and now you’d drown me 1077 Idle folks lack no excuses 483 Idleness is hunger’s mother and of theft it is first brother 2399 Idleness is the root of all evil 2399 Idleness must thank itself, if it go barefoot 342 If my beard is burnt, others try to light their pipes at it 747 If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it 478 If the first of July it be rainy weather. ’ Twill rain more or less for four weeks together 1486 If the wife sins, the hpsband is not innocent 56 If to day will not, tomorrow may 2161 If you cannot bite, don’t show your teeth 1909 If you laugh to-day, you may cry to-morrow 2112 If you want a. pretence to whip a dog, it is enough to say he ate up the frying pan 199 If you will stir up the mire, you must bear the smell 148 Ill got, ill spent 1927 Ill luck is good/or something 930 In for a penny, in for a pound 639 In hospitality it is the spirit that is the chief thing 76 In the forehead and the eye, the lecture of the mind doth lie 1760 It is all the same whether a man has both legs in the stocks or one 288 It is an ill wind that blows nobody good 809 It is easy to be generous out of another man’s purse 1560 \lt is easy to bowl down a hill 2289 It is hard to please a’ parties 1976 It is hard to please every one 2219 It is hard to swim against the stream 695 It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook thatg ew in the sapling 2551 ( 141 ) INDEX II. It is not the lien which cackle9 most that lays most eggs 502 It is only at the tree laden with fruit that people throw stones 2271 It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey 2298 It is truth that makes a man angry 320 J Jack o’ both sides 44 Jack of all trades and master of none 2098 John has been to school to learn to be a fool 846 Joy and sorrow are to day and tomorrow 568 Justice, but not in my house 981 K Kindness produces kindness 663 Knock a man down, and kick him fpr falling 908 Know your opportunity 316 L Laughter is the hiccup of a fool 1248 Lazy folks take the most pains 491 Let bygones be bygones 1932 Let him that has a glass skull not take to stone throwing 780 Let him that itches scratch himself 1092 Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for 1270 Let that which is lost be for God 766 Let the guest go before the storm bursts 306 Let us have florins and we shall find cousins 1557 Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes 691 Life is sweet 415 Lifeless, faultless 997 Lightly come, lightly go 1927 Like a cat round hot milk 827 Like father like son 17 6 Like pot, like cover 735 Like the dog in the manger, he will neither do nor let do 717 Like the smith’s dog, that sleeps at the sound of hammer, and wakes at the crushing of the teetli 1070 Like the bailor who served for nothing, and found thread himself 1996 Like will to like 1846 Little enemies and little wounds are not to be despised 896 Little knows the fat sow what the lean one means 851 Little sticks kindle a fire, but great one's put it out 540 Look befo