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Keep the ftaff in your ain hand 450 Keep your breath to cool your crowdie Keep your mouth clofe and your een open Kend fouk’s nae company Kings and bears aft worry their keepers Kifs a sclate ftane and that winna slaver you 455 Kyth in your ain colours, that fouk may ken you L LAITH to bed and laith to rife Lang fafting hains nae meat Lang look'd for comes at last Lang fafting gathers wind 460 Lang ftraes are nae mots Lang ere ye faddle a foal Law’s coftly, take a pint and 'gree Law-makers fhou’dna be law-breakers Laugh at leifure ye may greet ere night 465 Lay the head of the fow to the tail of the grice 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 ftand to slay a moufe 470 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 475 Let the horns gang with the hide Let the morn come and the meat wi’t Let the kirk stand in the kirkyard Let them laugh that win Let them care that come behind 480 Lie for him and he’ll fwear for you Light burdens break nae banes Like Scotsmen, aye wife behind the hand Like the cur in the crub, he’ll neither do nor let do Like’s an ill mark 485 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 lefs car’d for