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 19 The mair coft tme Kair honaur The mawt is aboon the meal wi; him The mair noble the mair humble The master's eye makes the horfe fat 690 The mair mischief the better fport The pains o‘ergargs the profit The poor man's aye put to the warft The poor man pays for a' The poor man's fhilling is but a penny 665 The strangest horfe loops the dike The scholar may war the master The still fow cats up a' the draff The fmith has aye a fpark in his hafe The man’s the beggar's btother 700 The thiefer like the better foger The thing that's done is no to do The thing that's risted is not forgien The tod keeps aye his ain hole clean The tod's whelps are ill to tame, 705 The tod never fares better than when he's The warst warld that ever was fome man war. The worth o‘ a thing is best kend by the want The world is bound to nae man The fish gets the unlucky bait 710 There is many a true tale tell'd in a jest There is a meafure in a things There is nae rae blind as them that winna fee There is naething ill faid that's no ill tane There was never a fair word in 715 There was a wife that kept her fupper for her breakfast, and she was dead or day There was never a cake but it had its maik There was never enough where naething was left There is in gruel making There is a time to gley and a time to look, even 720 There is a great differ amang market days There is an end of an auid fang There is aye life for a living men There is an act in the laird of Grapt that no
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There is mae ways to the wood 725 There is mae married than good {{illegible} There never came ill after good advertifement