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When the ftead’s down fteek the ftable-door 810 Where the buck’s bound there he maun bleet Where the pig’s broken let the fherds ly Where drums beat laws are dumb Wee things fley cowards Wilfu’ wafte make waeful want 815 Wiles help weak fowk Will a fool’s feather in my cap gar my pot play Will a wit drive wi’ ye Winter thunder bodes fummer hunger Wink at wee fauts, your ain are muckle 820 Wife men may be willy’d with wiles Wit bought makes towk wife Wit bought is worth twa for nought Under water dearth, under fnaw broad Work for nought makes fowk dread fwear 825 Woo-fellers ken aye woo buyers Ufe makes perfytnefs Wrang has nae warrant Wrang count is nae payment Y YE breed of the cows tail, ye grow backward 830 Ye breed of foul weather, ye come unfent for Ye breed of the chapman, ye’re aye to handfell Ye breed of few of the laird’s tenants, o’er het Ye breed of good mawt, ye’re lang a coming Ye crack crowfly with your bonnet on 885 Ye cut before the point Ye came a day after the fair Ye cut lang whangs out of other fowk’s leather Ye come aftener with the rake than the fhool Ye canna make a filk purse of a fow’s lug 840 Ye canna fee the wood for trees Ye can never fare well but ye cry roaft meat Ye come a clipping time Ye canna preach out of your ain poupit Ye come to the gait’s houfe to thigg woo 845 Ye canna do but ye o’er-do Ye drive the plough before the owfen Ye dicna ken where the bleffing may light Ye drew nae fae well when ray mare was in the mire Ye fond it where the Highlaud-man fand the tangs