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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: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q95-152x200.jpg "[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]")
This is a small book, obviously produced to look “quaint.” My copy also still has the remains of the dust-jacket, which I have scanned seperately [dust jacket flaps], and there are also images of each page and a full transcription. [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: When the Steed's stolen, shut the Stable Door.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp62-63-313x200.jpg "[picture: When the Steed's stolen, shut the Stable Door.]")
![[picture: As sure as God's in Gloucestershire; Every Man thinks his own Geese Swans.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp18-19-313x200.jpg "[picture: As sure as God's in Gloucestershire; Every Man thinks his own Geese Swans.]")
![[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: 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.]")
