Items matching animals taken from Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)
animals: items depicting or describing creatures, whether wild or tame. The animals must be clearly depicted but need not be the main focus of an image or text.
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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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![He sets the Fox to keep his Geese. [woodcut: fox watching geese]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp16-17.jpg "He sets the Fox to keep his Geese. [woodcut: fox watching geese]")
![One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp54-55.jpg "One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]")
![Brag is a good Dog, but Holdfast is a better; The Belly has no Ears; [woodcut: mouse by house perhaps made from candle with snuffer]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp82-83.jpg "Brag is a good Dog, but Holdfast is a better; The Belly has no Ears; [woodcut: mouse by house perhaps made from candle with snuffer]")