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11 I wadna fother ye for your muck

I wadna ca‘ the king my cousin

I wad rather see‘t than hear tell o‘t

I winna make fish o‘ ane and flesh o‘ anither

I wish ye readier meat than a running hare

I wish you as muckle good o‘t as dogs get o‘grass

If any speir at ye, ye may say ye dinna ken

If e‘er I find his cart tumbling, I‘se gie a put

If I canna keep geese I'll keep gaislins

If I canna do‘t by might I'll do‘t by flight

If I live anither year, I'll ca‘ this year fernyear

If it can be nae better, it is well it is nae waur

If it serves me to wear it may gain you to look to

If it winna sell it winna sour

If ye brew well ye‘ll drink the better

If ye do wrang make amends

If ye serve the tod, ye maun bear up his tail

Ill bairns are best heard at hame

Ill beef never made good broo

Ill comes upon the waur‘s back

Ill counsel will gar a man stick his mare

Ill doers are aye ill dreaded

Ill getting het water frae ‘neath cauld ice

Ill hearing makes wrang rehearsing

Ill laying up makes mony thieves

Ill news are aſt our true

Ill payers are aye good cravers

Ill workers are aye good to-putters

Ill-will never spake well

Joke at leisure, ye kenna wha may jybe yoursel

Jouk and let the jaw gae o‘er

It gangs in at the ae lug and out at the ither

It is a good game that fills the wame

It is a good tongue that says nae ill

It is an ill wind that blaws naebody good

It is an ill cause that the lawyers think shame of

It is a mean mouse that has but ae hole

It is a nasty bird that files its ain nest