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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: 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]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp30-31-313x200.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: 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]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp68-69-313x200.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]")
![[picture: As you brew so you shall bake; Every bean has its Black; it is an ill wind that blows no body good]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp02-03-313x200.jpg "[picture: As you brew so you shall bake; Every bean has its Black; it is an ill wind that blows no body good]")
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: Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp38-39-313x200.jpg "[picture: Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]]")
![[picture: Nothing venture, nothing have; Virtue which parleys is near a Surrender.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp74-75-313x200.jpg "[picture: Nothing venture, nothing have; Virtue which parleys is near a Surrender.]")
