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THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLAND.




    "I am of opinion, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that there is no
    proverb which is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from
    experience itself, the mother of all the sciences."




                 THE

         PROVERBS OF SCOTLAND

                 WITH

  EXPLANATORY AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES
           AND A GLOSSARY.


                  BY

          ALEXANDER HISLOP.


             NEW EDITION.

 _ENTIRELY REVISED AND SUPPLEMENTED._


              EDINBURGH:
     ALEXANDER HISLOP & COMPANY.
                1868.




Transcriber's Note:

    Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect
    spellings and inconsistent hyphenation have been retained. The oe
    ligature is represented by [oe].




                  TO

    SIR WILLIAM STIRLING MAXWELL,
         BART. OF KEIR, M.P.,

 "ONE DEEPLY VERSED IN PROVERB LORE,"

      THE PRESENT COLLECTION OF

          SCOTTISH PROVERBS

          IS, BY PERMISSION,

     MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.




PREFACE.


The gathering together of the Proverbs of Scotland has occupied the
attention of several collectors. The earliest work on the subject which
has been traced is that of Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow, who, about the
time of the Reformation, made a small collection. The definite
information which we have of this work is so very slight, however, that
it has been of little or no value to subsequent collectors and writers
on the subject. The first collection of importance is the well-known