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 18 T 645 T'Ake it a’ and pay the merchant Take the bit and buffet we’t Takes a pint and ‘gree, the law’s coftly Take your ain will, and then ye’ll no die of the pe Take your venture as mony a good ship has done 650 Take your thanks to feed your cat Take part of the pelf when the pack’s a dealing Take a man by his word and a cow by her horn Take a hair of the dog that sit you Take me not up before i fa’ 655 Tell me tales out of the fchool That’s a tale of twa drinks That’s but ae doctor's opinion That’s for the father but no for the fon Thai’s for that as butter’s for fish 660 That’s my tale where’s your’s That’s the piece a sleep bairn never got The auld iver may die waiting for new grafs The back and the belly haw's every The better day the better deed 665 The book of May Be‘s is very braid The banes of a great estate is worth, the piking The caufe is good, and the word Fa' on The cure may be worfe than the disease The cow that’s first up gets,the first of the dew 670 The death of his first wife made fic a,hole in him heart that a' the lave slip easily through The first fuf of a fat haggis is the blader The farther in the deeper The feathers bear away the flesh The grey mark may be the heat houfe 675 The greateft clerks are the the wifest men The happy man canna be herried The higher tin the greater fa The King’s may come in the cadger’s gate The langer we live we fee the farlies 680 The lazy man’s the beggar’s brother The lucky penny worth nells foonest The langest day will have an end The laird may be laird and need his hind’s help The mair ye greet ye’ll pish the lefs 670 The mae the merrier,the fewer the better cheer