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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: A Fool's Bolt is soon shot; Birds of a Feather flock together; Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp14-15-313x200.jpg "[picture: A Fool's Bolt is soon shot; Birds of a Feather flock together; Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.]")
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: One scabbed Sheep marrs a whole Flock; Tread on a Worm and it will turn.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp80-81-313x200.jpg "[picture: One scabbed Sheep marrs a whole Flock; Tread on a Worm and it will turn.]")
![[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: It's neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil's Back will be spent under his Belly.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp46-47-313x200.jpg "[picture: It's neither Rhime nor Reason; What is got over the Devil's Back will be spent under his Belly.]")
![[picture: Near is my Shirt, but Nearer is my Skin.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp52-53-313x200.jpg "[picture: Near is my Shirt, but Nearer is my Skin.]")
