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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: Curs'd Cows have short Horns; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip. No longer pipe no longer dance.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp08-09.pg-313x200.jpg "[picture: Curs'd Cows have short Horns; Much falls between the Cup and the Lip. No longer pipe no longer dance.]")
![[picture: One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp54-55-313x200.jpg "[picture: One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]]")
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: To buy a Pig in a poke; Robin Hood's Pennyworths; He looks one way and rows another.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp48-49-313x200.jpg "[picture: To buy a Pig in a poke; Robin Hood's Pennyworths; He looks one way and rows another.]")
![[picture: One good Turn deserves another; He steals a Goose, and gives the Giblets in Alms.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp70-71-313x200.jpg "[picture: One good Turn deserves another; He steals a Goose, and gives the Giblets in Alms.]")
![[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.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp04-05-313x200.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.]")
