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![[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/000-Front-Cover-q95-380x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]")
Page images and pictures from Nathan Bailey’s 1721 Dictionary of Proverbs.
This is the Table of contents; there is also a transcription with the definitions and explanations. I used a 1917 edition from Yale University and the Oxford University Press, which is now out of copyright.
I also have Nathan Bailey’s Canting Dictionary online.
Title: Dictionary of Proverbs
City: London
Date: 1917
Total items: 48
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp22-23-313x200.jpg "[picture: All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]]")
![[picture: What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp04-05-313x200.jpg "[picture: What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.]")
Page images and pictures from Nathan Bailey’s 1721 Dictionary of Proverbs.
This is the Table of contents; there is also a transcription with the definitions and explanations. I used a 1917 edition from Yale University and the Oxford University Press, which is now out of copyright.
I also have Nathan Bailey’s Canting Dictionary online.
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![[picture: An old Dog will learn no Tricks; If you trust before you try, You may repent before you die.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp72-73-313x200.jpg "[picture: An old Dog will learn no Tricks; If you trust before you try, You may repent before you die.]")
![[picture: The more Haste the worse Speed; When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp58-59-313x200.jpg "[picture: The more Haste the worse Speed; When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks.]")
![[picture: The Traceys have always the Wind in their Faces; To cut large Thongs out of another Man's Leather; Too much of one Thing is good for nothing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp68-69-313x200.jpg "[picture: The Traceys have always the Wind in their Faces; To cut large Thongs out of another Man's Leather; Too much of one Thing is good for nothing]")
