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 17 S SAIR cravers are aye ill payers Say well and do well end with ae letter 05 Say well’s good but do well is better Say ftill no and ye’ll never be married Scant of cheeks makes a long nofe Scart the cogue wad fup mair Scorn comes commonly with fkaith 10 Seeing's believing a’ the world o’er Seeth flanes in butter the broo will be good Send you to the fea, ye ll no get faut water Serve yoursell till your bairns come to age Set that down on the back fide of your count-boak 15 Set a knave to catch a knave Set a ftout heart to a ftay brae Sharp ftomachs make fhort graces Shoal waters make maift din She is a wife wife that watlter ain weird 20 She looks as if butter would not melt in her man' She hads up her head like a hen drinking water She's not to be made a fong of She's better than fhe‘s bonny Sic as ye gie sic will ye get 25 Silence grips the moufe Sie reck as is therein comes out of the lam Slaw at meat flaw at wark Smooth waters run deap Sma‘ fish are better than nae fish 3O Soon enough if well enough Sorrow is foon enough when it comes Sorrow and ill weather come unfent for Some hae hantle o‘ fauts ye're only a ne'er-do-well Speak good of pipers year father was a fiddler 535 Spil ale is waur than water Stay and drink of your ain browst Strike the iron as lang’g its het Stuffings hands out storms Stown dints are fweeteft 54O Sudden friendfhip, fare repentance Sup'd, out wort was ne'er good ale Surfeits flae mair than fwords Swear by your burnt fhins Sweet to bed and fweer up in the morning