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 18 T 645 TAKE it a’ and pay the merchant Take the hit and buffet wi’t Take a pint and gree, the law’s coftly Take your ain will, and then ye ll no die of the pet Take your venture as nanny a good fhip has done 650 Take your thanks to feed your cat Take part of the pelf when the pack’s a-dealing 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’ 655 Tell nae tales out of the fehool That's a ia!e of twa drinks That’s but ae doctor's opinion That’s for the father but no for the fon That’s for that as butter s for fifh 660 That's my tale where’s your ’s That’s the piece a flep-bairn never got The auld aver may die waiting for new grafs The back and the belly hands every ane buly The better day the better deed 665 The book of May Bees is verv braid The banes of a great eftate is worth the piking The caufe is good and the word Fa'on The cure may be worfe than the difeafe The cow that’s firftt up gets the first of the dew 670 The death of his firft wife made fin a hole in his heart that a’ the lave flipt eafily through The firft fuf of a fat haggife is the baldefl The farther in the deeper The feathers bear away the flefh The gray mare may be the beft horfe 675 The greateft clerks are not the, wifeft 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 fee the mae fairles 680 The lazy man's the beggar’s brother The lucky penny worth' fells fooneft The langeft day will have an end The laird may be laird and his hind’s help The mair ye greet ye’ll pifh the lefs 985 The mae the merrier, the fewer the better cheer