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![[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/000-Front-Cover-q95-380x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]")
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.
Title: Dictionary of Proverbs
City: London
Date: 1917
Total items: 48
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Dustjacket: rear]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/000-dustjacket-rear-q95-152x200.jpg "[picture: Dustjacket: rear]")
The back of this little book had adverts on the dust jacket for some other books produced by Yale University Press: three books by Paul Claudel, Minister Plenipotentiary of France to Brazil: The Hostage (L’Otage), The Tidings Brought To Mary: A Mystery (L’Annonce Faite À Marie), and, The East I know (La Connaissance De L’Est). [more...] [$]
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: Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp32-33-313x200.jpg "[picture: Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.]")
![[picture: Many Words will not fill a Bushel; The younger Brother the better Gentleman.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp78-79-313x200.jpg "[picture: Many Words will not fill a Bushel; The younger Brother the better Gentleman.]")
![[picture: Better play at small Game than stand out; Give him a Rowland for his Oliver.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp40-41-313x200.jpg "[picture: Better play at small Game than stand out; Give him a Rowland for his Oliver.]")
![[picture: Well begun is half ended; All is well that ends well.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp76-77-313x200.jpg "[picture: Well begun is half ended; All is well that ends well.]")
