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The mair coft:the mair honour The mawt is aboon the meal wi' him The mair noble the mair humble The mafter's eye makes the horfe fat 690 The mair mischief the better fport The pains o’engang's the profit The poor man’s aye put to the warst The poor man pays for a’ The poor man’s fhilling is but a penny 695 The ftrongeft horfe loups the dike The scholar may war the mafter The ftill low eats up a’ the draff The fmith has aye a fpark in his hawfe The fimple man’s the beggar’s brother 700 The thiefer-like the better foger The thing that’s done is no to do The thing that s frifted is not forgien The tod keeps aye his ain hole clean The tod’s whelps are ill to tame 705 The tod never farts better than when he’s haun’d The warft warld that ever was fome man wan The worth of a thing is beft kend by the want o’t The world is bound to nae man The unfoofy nfh gets the unlucky bait 710 There is mony a true tale teli’d in a jeft There is a meafure in a’ things There is naue fae blind as them that winna fee There is naething ill faid that’s no ill taue There was never a fair word in flyting 715 There was a wife that kept her fupper for her breakfast, and fhe was dead or day There was never a cake but it had its maik There was never eanough where naething was left There is skill 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 auld fang There is aye life tor a living man There is an act in the laird of Grant's court, that no aboon eleven fpeaks at anes There is mae ways to the wood than ane 725 There is mae married than good houfe handders There never came ill after good advertifement