THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLAND.
"I am of opinion, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that there is noproverb which is not true, because they are all sentences drawnfrom experience itself, the mother of all the sciences."
THE
Proverbs of Scotland
WITH
EXPLANATORY AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES
AND A GLOSSARY.
BY
ALEXANDER HISLOP.
ENTIRELY REVISED AND SUPPLEMENTED.
ALEXANDER HISLOP & COMPANY.
1868.
Transcriber's Note:Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.Dialect spellings and inconsistent hyphenation have been retained.The following table has been added for convenience.
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.
he gathering together of the Proverbs ofScotland has occupied the attention ofseveral collectors. The earliest work onthe subject which has been traced is that of Beaton,Archbishop of Glasgow, who, about the time of theReformation, made a small collection. The definiteinformation which we have of this work is so veryslight, however, that it has been of little or no valueto subsequent collectors and writers on the subject.The first collection of importance is the well-knownone made by the Rev. David Fergusson, minister ofDunfermline, who was a contemporary of ArchbishopBeaton. Fergusson's co