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example of English interest than these in "[James] Kelly's excellent collection of 1721 [which] was published in London and was specially designed for English readers."
Archer Taylor University of California Berkeley
Note: The copy here reproduced is in the possession of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
1. "Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings from Scottish Writings Before 1600," _Mediaeval Studies_, XI (1949), 123-205, XII (1951). 87-164.
2. Erskine Beveridge, _Fergusson's Scottish Proverbs From the Original Print of 1641 Together with a larger Manuscript Collection of about the same period hitherto unpublished_, Scottish Text Society, 15 (Edinburgh, 1924), p. ix. John Maxwell's collection made between 1584 and 1589 was compiled from books; see B. J. Whiting, "John Maxwell's 'Sum Reasownes and Prowerbes,'" _Modern Language Notes_, LXIII (1948), 534-536.
3. The spelling Fergusson seems preferable. Donald Wing, _Short-Title Catalogue_ (3 v., New York, 1945-1951), II, 47, F 767-770 prints "Ferguson" but alphabetizes it as "Fergusson." He reports locations for the editions of 1641, 1659, and 1667. Beveridge reports an edition in the British Museum which lacks the titlepage but may be the edition of 1675 and editions of 1692, 1706, and 1799. He reproduces the titlepage of the edition of 1667 and the first page. It shows variations in spelling but not in text. Beveridge cites no locations for the editions of 1649, 1699, 1709, and 1716.
4. It contains at least 912 proverbs, for there is an error in numbering at No. 686. I have not tested the numbers throughout.
5. For the details see Beveridge, pp. xxxvii-xxxix.
6. "English Dictionaries and Dictionaries of Proverbs," _The Library_, 4th. Series, XXV (1945-1946), 50-71, especially p. 66.

A COLLECTION OF Scotch Proverbs.
Collected by Pappity Stampoy.

Scotch Proverbs.

A.
A Fair Bride is soon buskt, and a short Horse is soon wispt.
A friends Dinner is soon dight.
All is not in hand that helps.
All the Keys of the Countrey hangs not at one Belt.
An ill Cook would have a good Cleaver.
As good haud, as draw.
As the old Cock craws, the young Cock lears.
All fails that fools thinks.
A blyth heart makes a blomand visage.
A gentle Horse would not be over fair spur'd.
A still Sow eats all the Draff.
All things hath a beginning, God excepted.
A blind man should not judge of colours.
A good fellow tint never, but at an ill fellows hand.
All the Corn in the Country is not shorn by the Kempers.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
As many heads as many wits.
A black shoe makes a blythe heart.
A Vaunter and a Lyar is both one thing.
A dum man wan never land.
And old hound bytes fair.
A sloathfull man is a Beggers brother.
As soon comes the Lamb-skin to the market as the old Sheeps.
At open doors Dogs come in.
An hungry man sees far.
All is not tint that is in peril.
As the Sow fills the Draff fowres.
A good asker should have a good nay-say.
A good ruser was never a good rider.
A Lyar should have a good memory.
Ane Begger is wae, another by the gate gae.
A wight man never wanted a weapon.
A half-penny Cat may look to the King.
As fair greits the bairn that is dung after noon, as he that is dung before noon.
An oleit Mother makes a fweir Daughter.
A borrowed len should come laughing ahme.
As long runs the Fox as he hath feet.
A proud heart in a poor breast, has meikle dolour to dree.
A teem purse makes a bleat merchant.
Ane year a Nurish, seven years a Daw.
Ane ill word begets another, and it were at at the Bridge at London.
A Wool-seller kens a Wool-buyer.
Auld men are twice bairns.
All fellows, Jock and the Laird.
A hasty man never wanted woe.
A silly bairn is eith to lear.
As good merchant tines as wins.
A racklesse hussy makes mony thieves.
A hungry lowse bites fair.
Anes pay it never crave it.
A fools bolt is soon shot.
Anes wood, never wise, ay the worse.
As the Carle riches he wretches.
An ill life, an ill end.
A Skabbed Horse is good enough for a skald Squire.
A given Horse should not be lookt in the teeth.
An old seck craves meikle clouting.
A travelled man hath leave to lye.
A fool when he hes spoken, hes all done.
A man that is warned, is half-armed.
A mirk mirrour is a mans mind.
A full heart lied never.
A good Cow may have an ill Calf.
A dum man holds all.
A Cock is crouse upon his own midding.
A greedy man God hates.
As fair fights Wrans as Cranes.
A skade mans head is soon broke.
A yeeld Sow was never good to gryses.
An unhappy mans Cairt is eith to tumble.
As meikle upwith, as meikle downwith.
A new Bissom sweeps clean.
A skabbed sheep syles ail the flock.
A tarrowing bairn was never fat.
A tratler is worse then a thief.
An ill shearer gat never a good hook.
A burnt bairn fire dreads.
All the speed is in the spurs.
A word before is worth two behinde.
An ill win penny will cast down a pound.
An old seck is ay skailing.
A fair