![[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/000-Front-Cover-q95-380x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]")
Title: Dictionary of Proverbs
City: London
Date: 1917
Total items: 48
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: Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp38-39.jpg "[picture: Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]]")
![[picture: A scan of blank paper for use in backgrounds (public domain)]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/bg.jpg "[picture: A scan of blank paper for use in backgrounds (public domain)]")
![[picture: Give him a Rowland for his Oliver; Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish; He that Reckons without his Host must reckon again.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp42-43.jpg "[picture: Give him a Rowland for his Oliver; Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish; He that Reckons without his Host must reckon again.]")
![[picture: A Shoemaker must not go beyond his Last]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp66-67.jpg "[picture: A Shoemaker must not go beyond his Last]")
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