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Daffin and want o' wit maks auld wives denard.. Damming and laving is gude sure fishing. Daughters and dead fish are nae keeping ware. Dawted bairns dow bear little. Day-light will peep through a sma' hole. Dear bought and far sought is meat for ladies. Death and marriage break term-day. Death defies the doctor. Ding down the nest and the rooks will flee away. Dinna gut your fish till ye get them. Dit your mouth wi' your meat. Do as the lasses do, say no and tak it. Dinna meddle wi' the deil and the laird's bairns. Dogs will redd swine. Dows and dominies leave ay a foul house. Double charges rive cannons. Drink he sought, but draff was his errand. Draft's gude enough for swine. Drive a cow to the ha' she'll rin to the byre. Drink and drouth come na ay thegether. Drink little that ye may drink lang. Drunken at e'en and dry in the morning. Dummie winna lie.

E

Early master soon knave.--Eat your fill but pouch nane. Eat pease wi the prince, and cherries wi' the chapman. Eat in measure and defy the doctor. Eat weel's drink weel's brither. Eating and drinking wants but a beginning. Eild and poortith's sair to thole. Eith learning the cat to the kirn. Eith working when will's at hame.