![[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]](http://www.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: All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp22-23.jpg "[picture: All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]]")
![[picture: Curs'd Cows have short Horns; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip. No longer pipe no longer dance.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp08-09.pg.jpg "[picture: Curs'd Cows have short Horns; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip. No longer pipe no longer dance.]")
![[picture: Sue a Beggar and catch a Louse; Many Hands make Light Work; [woodcut: well-dressed man scratches his head standing near a beggar with outstretched hat]]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp30-31.jpg "[picture: Sue a Beggar and catch a Louse; Many Hands make Light Work; [woodcut: well-dressed man scratches his head standing near a beggar with outstretched hat]]")
![[picture: It's neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil's Back will be spent under his Belly.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp46-47.jpg "[picture: It's neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil's Back will be spent under his Belly.]")
![[picture: A Fool's Bolt is soon shot; Birds of a Feather flock together; Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp14-15.jpg "[picture: A Fool's Bolt is soon shot; Birds of a Feather flock together; Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.]")
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