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 22 Where the pig's broken let the fherd ly Where drums beat laws are dumb Wee things ftay cowards Wilfu wafte makes wnefu’ want 815 Wiles help weak fowk Will a feather in my cap gar my pot play Will a wit ftrive wi ye Winter thunder bods fummer hanger Wirk at wee fauts your ain are muckle 820 Wife men may be wiily'd wi’ wiles Wit bought makes wife Wit bought is worth twa for nought Under water dearth, under fnaw broad Work for nought makes fouk dead fwear 825 Woo fellers ken aye woo-buyers Ufe maes perfytnefs Wrang has nae warrant Wrang counts is nae payment Y YE breed of the cow’s tail, ye grow backward Ye breed of foul weather, ye come unfent for Ye breed of the chapman, ye’re aye to handfell Ye breed of few of the laid’s tenants,o'er het Ye breed or good mawt. ye’re lang a coming Ye crack crowfly with your bonnet on 835 Ye cut before the point Ye came a day after the fair Ye cut lang whangs, out of other fowk’s leather Ye come a^tener with the rake than the fhool Ye canna make a filk purfe of a fow s lug 840 Ye canna fee the wood for trees Ye can never fare well but ye cry roaft meat Ye come a clipping time Ye canna preach out of your ain poupit Ye come to the gait's houfe to thigg woo 845 Ye canna do but o’er do Ye drive the prough the before owfen Ye dinna ken where the bleffing may light Ye drew nae fae well when my mare was in the mire Ye fand it where the Highlandman. faud the tangs 850 Ye glowr’d at the moon and fell in the midding Ye glowr like a cat out of a whin bufh Ye go far about feeking the neareft.