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 It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in’t 410 It is a fign of a hale heart that rift at the rumple It is a fair field where a’s flain It is a footh dream that's feen waking It is a filly flock where the ewe bears the bell It is a filly hen that canna scrape for ae bird 415 It is a tight tree that has neither knap nor gaw It is a’ tint that is done to auld fowk 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 comes a will It is good gear that pleases the merchant It is good baking befide the meal It is good fleeping in a hale skin 425 It is good to be out of harm’s gate It is good to be fib to filler It is good to be good in your time, ye kenna how lang it may last It is hard to fit in Rome and strive with the Pope It is hard to pleafe a’ parties 43O It is hard baith to have and want It is ill getting breeks aff a bare arfe It Is ill bringing butt what’s no bean It is kittle fhooting at corbies and clergy It is kittle to waken fleeping dogs 435 It is needlefs to pour water on a drown’d moufe It is not tint that a friend gels It is net what is fire, bat what has fhe It is paft jouking when the head s aff Is is well war’d that wafters want 540 It is well that our fauts are not written on our face It is the best fpake in your wheel It keeps his nofe at the grindstane It will be a feather out of your wing It was never for naithing that the gleg whiftled K 445 KEEP something for a fair foot Keep your ain fish guts to your ain fea-maws Keep your tongue within your teeth Keep the feaft to the feaft day