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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.

He sets the Fox to keep his Geese. [woodcut: fox watching geese]

He sets the Fox to keep his Geese. [woodcut: fox watching geese]

Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)

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