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I wadna fother you for your muck I wadna ca' the king my cousin I wad rather see't than hear tell o't                       I winna make fish of ane and flesh of another I wish you readier meat than a running hare I wish you as muckle good o't as dogs get o' grass If any spier at ye, ye may say, ye dinna ken If e'er I find his cart tumbling, l’se gie a put If I canna keep geese I'll keep gaislinis If I canna do't by night I'll do’t by flight If I live anither year, I'll ca' this year fernyear If it can be nae better, it is well it is nae waur If it serves me to wear it may gain you to look to                       If it winna sell it winna sour If ye brew well, ye'll drink the better If ye do wrang, make amends If ye serve the tod, ye maun bear up his tail Ill bairns are best heard at hame Ill beef never made good broo Ill comes upon the waur's back Ill counsel will gar a man stick his mare Ill doers are aye ill dreaded Ill getting het water frae 'neath could ice Ill hearing makes wrang rehearsing Ill laying up makes mony thieves Ill news are aft owre true Ill payers are aye good cravers Ill workers are aye good to putters Ill workers will never spake well Joke at leisure, ye kenna wha may jybe yoursel Jouk and let the jaw gae o'er                       It gangs in at the ae lug and out at the ither It is a good game that fills the wame It is a good tongue that says nae ill It is an ill wind that blaws naebody good It is an ill cause that the lawyers think shame of                       It is a mean mouse that has but ae bole It is a nasty bird that files its ain nest