![[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: Give a Man Luck and throw him into the Sea; Money makes the Mare to go; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip.]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp34-35.jpg "[picture: Give a Man Luck and throw him into the Sea; Money makes the Mare to go; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip.]")
![[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: 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://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp82-83.jpg "[picture: 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]]")
![[picture: He sets the Fox to keep his Geese. [woodcut: fox watching geese]]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp16-17.jpg "[picture: He sets the Fox to keep his Geese. [woodcut: fox watching geese]]")
![[picture: The Traceys have always the Wind in their Faces; To cut large Thongs out of another Man's Leather; Too much of one Thing is good for nothing]](http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp68-69.jpg "[picture: The Traceys have always the Wind in their Faces; To cut large Thongs out of another Man's Leather; Too much of one Thing is good for nothing]")
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