SPANISH PROVERBS.
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Abad avariento por un bodigo pierde ciento. A coveteous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.
Abad de Carçuela, comistes la olla, pedis la caçuela. Abbot of Carçuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin.
Abajanse los adarves y alzanse los muladares. Walls sink and dunghills rise.
A barba de necio aprenden todos á rapar. On a fool’s beard all learn to shave.
Abiendo escalera por do bajar, buscais soga para os colgar. With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by.