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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...] [$]
![[picture: All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp22-23-313x200.jpg "[picture: All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]]")
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: Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp12-13-313x200.jpg "[picture: Fast bind, fast find; Like Father like Son.]")
![[picture: An old Dog will learn no Tricks; If you trust before you try, You may repent before you die.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp72-73-313x200.jpg "[picture: An old Dog will learn no Tricks; If you trust before you try, You may repent before you die.]")
![[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.]")
