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 7 Fire and water are good fervants but bad mafters Flaes and a girning wife are wakerife bedfellow? Fleying a bird is not the gate to grip it 05 Fools fhou’d na hae chaping flicks Fools make feafts and wise men eat them, The wife make jefls, and fools repeat them For fafhion’s fake dogs gang to the market Forbid a fool a thing and that he will do 10 Fore-warn’d ha’f armed Foul water flockens fire Friendship canna stand aye on ae side Frefh fifh and poor friends grow foon ill far’d Froft and f’afhood have baith a dirty wa’gang G 15 GEAR is eafier gain’d than guided Gentle paddocks have long taes Giff gaff makes good friends Give a dog an ill name and he’ll foot, be bang’d Give a man luck and fling him in the fea 20 Give o’er when the play's good Give them tow enough and they’ll hang themfells Give you an inch you’ll take an ell Glades and laffes are bruckle ware Good ale needs nae wifp 25 Good bairns get broken brows Good fouk are fcarce, take care of me Good watch prevents harm Good ware make a quick market 30 Gowd may be dear coft Great barker are nae biters Greedy fouk have lang arms Gut nae fifh till ye get them H 35 HAUD a hank in your ain hand Hae, gars a deaf man hear Hair and hair make the carle’s beard bare Hame is hame if it were never fae hamely Hand in ufe is father of larr Handle the pudding while it is het 4O Hang hunger and drown drouth Hap and a halfpenny is gear enough