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 18 T G45 TAke it a' and pay the merchant A Take the bit and buffet wi't Take a pint and ’gree, the law’s coftly Take your am will, and then ye’ll no die of the pet Take your venture as mony a good fhip 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 hern Take a hair of the dog that bit you Take me not up before I fa’ 655 Tel nae tales out of the fchool That’s a tale of twa drinks That's but ae doctors opinion That’s for the father but no for the fon That's for that as butter’s for fifh 660 That’s my tale where’s your’s That’s the piece a ftep-bairn never got The auld aver may die waiting for new graft The back and the belly bauds every ane bufy The better day the better deed 665 The book of May Bees is very braid The banes of a great eftate is worth the piking The caufe is good, and the word Fa' on The cure may be worfe than the diseafe The cow that’s firft up gets the first of the dew 670 The death of his firft wife made fic a hole in his heart that a’ the lave flipt eafily through The first fuf of a fat haggise is the baldest. The farther in the deeper The feathers bear away the flefh The gray mare may be the best borfe 675 The greatest clerks are not the wifest men The happy man canna be herried The higher up the greater fa’ The king’s errand may come in the cadger’s gate The lauger we live we the mae fairlies 680 The lazy man’s the begger’s brother The lucky pennyworth tells fooneft The langeft day will have an end The laud may be laird and need his hind's help The mair ye greet ye’ll pith the lefs 635 The mae the merrier, the fewer the better cheer