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Little odds between a feaft and fu’ wame 49O Loud at the loan waa ne’er a good milk cow Love’s as warm amang cotters as courtiers Love your friend and look to yourfel M MArdens’ bairns are aye well bred Mair by luck than good guiding 495 Mair hafte the war fpeed, quoth the tailor to the lang thread Mair hamely than welcome Make ae lang ftep and down ye gae Make a kirk and a mill o’t Make the bell of an ill bargain 500 Make your hay when the fun fhines Malice is aye minrifu’ May-bees flee not at this time of the year Meat feeds, and claith deads, but manners make the man Meat and mafs hinders no man 505 Men are not to be met by inches Mickle wad aye hae mair Mickle mouth’d fouk have aye hap to their meat Mickle may fa’ between the cap and the lip Mopey makes a man free ilka where 510 Mony hands make light wark Mony mafters, quoth the paddock to the harrow Mony hounds may foon worry ae hare Mony excufes that pifhes the bed Mony a ane ferves a thankless mafter 515 Mony wite their wife for their ain life Mony dogs die or ye fa’ heir Mony a ane’s gear has battened his binderend Mony aunts mony eems, mony kin and few friends Mony good nights is laith away 520 Mony ways to kill a dog, tho’ ye dinna hang Lim Mony cooks ne’er made good kail Mony a ane fpeirs the gate they ken fu' well Must is a king’s word My tongue is no beneath your belt 525 My ton’s my fon aye till he get a wife, my daughter’s my daughter a’ the days of her life My market’s made, ye may lick a whip fhaft