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155 Credit is hetter than ill-won gear. Crooked carlin, quoth the cripple to his wife. Cut your coat according to your claith. D        Damming and laving is a good sure fishing, Daughters and dead fish are nae keeping ware. 160 Dauted bairns do bear little. Day-light will peep through a sma hole. Death and marriage make term day. Death defies the doctors. Delays are dangerous. 165 Do well and dread no shame. Do what ye ought, and come what will. Do the likerest and hope the best. Do as the lasses do, say no, tho' ye think na so. Double drinks are good for drouth. 170 Double charges rive cannons. Draff's good enough for swine. Drink little that ye may drink lang. Dree out the inch when ye have thol'd the span. E        Eagles catch nae flies. 175 Eat well's drink well's brother. Eating and drinking want but a beginning. Either live or die with honour. Evening oats are good morning fother. Enough's as good as a feast. 180 Every ane creesbes the fat sow's arse. Every ane kens best where his ain shoe nips him. Every craw thinks its ain bird whitest. Every dog has his day. Every man wears his belt his ain gait, 185 Every man's tale is good till anither's be tauld. Every man has his ain draff pock. Every thing has an end, and a pudding has twa. Experience teaches fools. F        Faint heart never won a fair lady.