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 13 Keep the ftaff in your ain hand 450 Keep your breath to cool your crowdie Keep your mouth cofe and your een open Kent a  nae company Kings and bears aft worry their keepers Kifs a fclate ftane and that winna flaver you 455 Kyth in your ain colour, that fouk may ken you L LAITH to bed and laith to rife Lang failing hams nae meet Lang look d for comes a laft Lang fafting gathers wind 460 Lang straes are nae mots Lang ere ye faddle a foal Law a coftly, take a pint and 'gree Law makers fhou dna be law breakers Laugh at leifure, ye may greet ere night 465 Lay the head of the fow to the tail of the grice Leave welcome behind you Leave aff as lang as the play’s good Learn you to an ill ufe, and ye’ll calt cuftom Letna the plough ftand to flay a moufe 470 Let bell'd weather break the fnaw Let him take a fpring on his ain fiddle Let him cool in the fkin he het in Let his ain wand ding him Let never fororw come fae near your heart 475 Let the horns gang with the hide Let the morn come and the meat wi’t Let the kirk ftand in the knkyard Le them laugh that win Let them care that come behind 480 Lie for him and he ll fwear for you Light burdens break nae banes Like Scotsmen, aye wife behind the hand Like the cur in the crub, he'll neither do nor let do Like’s on ill mark 485 Like a sow playing on a trump Like the wife that never cried for the laddie, till the pot ran Lippen to me, but look to yourfell Little kend the lefs car d lor