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 12 It is a poor kin that has neither whore ner thief in 410 It is the fign of a hale heart that rift at the rumple It is a fair field where a’s flain It isa footh dream that’s feen waking It is a filly flack where the ewe bears the bell It is a filly hen that canna ferape for ae bird 415 It is a tight tree that has neither knap nor gaw It is a' tint that is done to auld folk and bairns It is but kindly that the pock fa’r of the herring It is better to fup with a cutty than want a fpoon It is by the head that the cow gie’s milk 420 It is to come to mickle, but ‘tis to come to that It is good maut that cornea a will It is good gear that plafes the merchant It is good baking befide the meal It is good fleeping in a hale flain It is good to be out of harm a gate It is good to be fib to filler It is good to be good in your time, ye kenna ho lang it may laft It is hard to fit in Rome and flrive with the Pope It hard to pleafe a’ parties 430 It s hard baith to have and want It is ill getting breeks aff a bare arse It is iil bringing butt what’s no benn It is kittle fhoonting at corbien and clergy It is kittle to waken ileeping dogs 435 It is needlefs to pour water on a drown’d mouse It is not tint that a friend gets It is not what is fhe, but what has fhe It is paft jouking when the head’s aff It s well war’d that wafters want 450 It is well that our fauts are not written on our face It is the beft fpake in your wheel It keek his nofe at the grindftane It will be a feather out of your wing It was never for naething that the gleg whiftled K KEEP fomething for a fair foot Keep your ain fish guts to your ain fea-maw Keep your tongue within you teeth Keep the feaft to the feaft day