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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: One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp54-55-313x200.jpg "[picture: One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]]")
![[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]")
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: Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp12-13-313x200.jpg "[picture: Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.]")
![[picture: It's neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil's Back will be spent under his Belly.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp46-47-313x200.jpg "[picture: It's neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil's Back will be spent under his Belly.]")
![[picture: Save a Thief from Hanging, and he'll cut your Throat; Jack will never make a Gentleman.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp24-25-313x200.jpg "[picture: Save a Thief from Hanging, and he'll cut your Throat; Jack will never make a Gentleman.]")
