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 13 Keep the ftaff in your ain hand 50 Keep your breath to cool your crowdtie Keep your mouth clofe aud your een open Kend fouk’s nae company Kings and bears aft worry their keepers Kifs a felate ftane and that winna flaver you 55 Kyth in your ain colours that fos may ken you L LAlTH to bed and laith to rife Lang falling hains nae meat Lang look'd for comes at taft Lang fafting gathers wind 60Lang ftraes are nae mots Lang ere ye faddle a foal Laws cotftly take a pint and 'gree Law makers fhou’dua be law breakers Laugh at leifure ye may greet ere night 65 Lay the head of the fow to the tail of griee Leave welcome behind ye Leave aff as lang as the play's good Learn you to an ill use and ye’ll ca’t cuftom Letna the plough fland to flay a moufe 70 Let bell’d weather break the fnaw Let him take a fpring on his ain fiddle Let him cool in the skin he het in Let his ain wand ding him Let never forrow come fae near your heart 75Let the horns gang with the hide Let the morn come and the meat wi’t Let the kirk ftand in the kirkyard Let them laugh that win Let them care that come behind 80 Lie for him and he’ll fwear for you Light burdens break nae banes Like Sotsmen, aye wife behind the hand Like the cur in the crub,he’ll neither do nor let do Like’s an ill mark 85 Like a fow playing on a trump Like the wife, that never cried for the laddie, till the pot ran o’er Lippen to me but look to yourfell Little kend the left ear'd