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 following table has been added for convenience.

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[GLOSSARY]

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.