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 7 Fire and water are good fervants but bad mafters Flaes and a girning wife are wakerife bedfellows Fleying a bird is not the gate to grip it 205 Fools fhou’d na hae chapping fticks Fools make feafts and wise men eat them, The wife make jefts, and fools repeat them For fafhion’s fake as dogs gang to the market Forbid a fool a thing and that he will do 210 Fore-warn’d ha’farmed Foul water slockens fire Friendship canna stand aye on ae fide Frefh fifh and poor friends grow foon ill-far’d Froft and f'afhood have baith a dirty wa’gang G

512 G Ear is eafier gain’d than guided Gentle paddocks have long taes Giff gaff makes good friends Give a dog an ill name and he’ll foon he hang’d Give a man luck and fling him in the fea 220 Give o’er when the play’s good Give them tow enough and they’ll hang themfells Give you an inch you’ll take an ell Glaffes and laffes are bruckle ware Good ale needs nae wifp 225 Good bairns get broken brows Good fouk are fcarcc, take care of me Good watch prevents harm Good ware make a quick market 230 Gowd may be dear coft Great barkers are nae biters Greedy fouk have lang arms Gut nae fifh till ye get them H 235 H Aud a hank in your ain hand Hae gars a deaf man hear Hair and hair make the carle’s bear! bear Hame is hame if it were never fae hamely. Hand in ufe is father of lair Handle the pudding while it is het 210 Hang hunger and drown drouth Hap and a halfpenny is gear enough