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Take it a’ and pay the merchant

Take the bite and buffet wi’t

Take a pint and ’gree, the law’s costly

Take your ain will, and then ye’ll no die of the po t

Take your venture as mony a good ship has done

Take your thanks to feed the cat

Take a man by his word, and a cow by her horn

Take a hair of the dog that bit you

Take me not up before I fa’

Tell nae tales out of the school

That’s a tale of twa drinks

That’s but ae doctor’s opinion

That’s for the father but no for the son

That’s for that, as butter’s for fish

That’s my tale where's yours

That’s the piece a step-bairn never got

The auld iver may die waiting for new grass

The back and the belly hauds every ane busy

The better day the better deed

The book of May-Bees is very braid

The bains of a great estate is worth the piking

The cure may be worse than the disease

The cow that’s first up get the first of the dew

The first fuf of a fat haggis is the baldest

The feathers bear away the flesh

The grey mare may be the best horse

The greatest clerks are not the wisest men

The happy man canna be herried

The higher up the greater fa’

The king’s errand may come in the cadger’s gate

The langer we live we see the may fairlies

The lazy man’s the beggar’s brother

The lucky pennyworth sells soonest

The langest day will have an end

The laird may be laird and need his hind’s help

The mair ye greet ye’ll pish the rest

The mae the merrier, the fewer the better cheer