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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: Give a Man Luck and throw him into the Sea; Money makes the Mare to go; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp34-35-313x200.jpg "[picture: Give a Man Luck and throw him into the Sea; Money makes the Mare to go; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip.]")
![[picture: Give him a Rowland for his Oliver; Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish; He that Reckons without his Host must reckon again.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp42-43-313x200.jpg "[picture: Give him a Rowland for his Oliver; Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish; He that Reckons without his Host must reckon again.]")
![[picture: Proferred Service stinks; The Receiver is as bad as the Thief; Reckon not your Chickens before they are hatched.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp44-45-313x200.jpg "[picture: Proferred Service stinks; The Receiver is as bad as the Thief; Reckon not your Chickens before they are hatched.]")
![[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]]")
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![[picture: Little Pitchers have great Ears; Many talk of Robin Hood who never shot in his Bow.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp36-37-313x200.jpg "[picture: Little Pitchers have great Ears; Many talk of Robin Hood who never shot in his Bow.]")
![[picture: Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp38-39-313x200.jpg "[picture: Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]]")
![[picture: Better play at small Game than stand out; Give him a Rowland for his Oliver.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp40-41-313x200.jpg "[picture: Better play at small Game than stand out; Give him a Rowland for his Oliver.]")
![[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: To buy a Pig in a poke; Robin Hood's Pennyworths; He looks one way and rows another.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp48-49-313x200.jpg "[picture: To buy a Pig in a poke; Robin Hood's Pennyworths; He looks one way and rows another.]")
![[picture: A Rolling Stone gathers no Moss; It is good to make Hay while the Sun shines.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp50-51-313x200.jpg "[picture: A Rolling Stone gathers no Moss; It is good to make Hay while the Sun shines.]")
![[picture: Near is my Shirt, but Nearer is my Skin.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp52-53-313x200.jpg "[picture: Near is my Shirt, but Nearer is my Skin.]")
![[picture: He makes a Rod for his own Breech.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp56-57-313x200.jpg "[picture: He makes a Rod for his own Breech.]")
