![[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.
![[picture: As you brew so you shall bake; Every bean has its Black; it is an ill wind that blows no body good]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp02-03.jpg "[picture: As you brew so you shall bake; Every bean has its Black; it is an ill wind that blows no body good]")
![[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: An old Dog will learn no Tricks; If you trust before you try, You may repent before you die.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp72-73.jpg "[picture: An old Dog will learn no Tricks; If you trust before you try, You may repent before you die.]")
![[picture: Save a Thief from Hanging, and he'll cut your Throat; Jack will never make a Gentleman.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp24-25.jpg "[picture: Save a Thief from Hanging, and he'll cut your Throat; Jack will never make a Gentleman.]")
![[picture: What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp04-05.jpg "[picture: What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.]")
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