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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: Give him a Rowland for his Oliver; Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish; He that Reckons without his Host must reckon again.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp42-43-313x200.jpg "[picture: Give him a Rowland for his Oliver; Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish; He that Reckons without his Host must reckon again.]")
![[picture: I talk of Chalk and you of Cheese; Charity begins at Home; Cut your Coat according to your Cloth; What can't be cur'd must be endur'd.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp06-07-313x200.jpg "[picture: I talk of Chalk and you of Cheese; Charity begins at Home; Cut your Coat according to your Cloth; What can't be cur'd must be endur'd.]")
![[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.]")
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: The more Haste the worse Speed; When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp58-59-313x200.jpg "[picture: The more Haste the worse Speed; When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks.]")
![[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.]")
