839 Scotch Proverbs / Page 23
441. It is eith to swim where the head is hild up.
442. It is fair in the hall, when beards wag all.
443. It is good baking besides meal.
444. It is good fishing in drumbling waters.
445. It is good mows that fills the wemb.
446. It is good sleeping in a heal skin.
447. It is hard to fling at the brod, or kick at the prick.
448. It is hard to wive and thrive in a year.
449. It is ill to bring but the thing that is not thereben.
450. It is ill to bring out of the flesh that is bred in the bene.
451. It is ill to draw a strea before an old Cat.
452. It is ill to make a bowing horn of a tods tail.
453. It is ill to waken sleeping dogs.
454. It is kindly that the poke fair of the Herring.
455. It is little of God's might, to make a poor man a Knight.
456. It is na mair pitty to see a Woman greit, nor to see a Goose go barefoot.
457. It is na play where ane greits, and another laughs.
458. It is na time to stoup when the head is off.
459. It is not good to want, and to have.
460. It is not the habit that makes the Monck.