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    A Collection of Scotch Proverbs
    A Collection of Scotch Proverbs
    A Collection of Scotch Proverbs
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    A Collection of Scotch Proverbs

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      A Collection of Scotch Proverbs - Archer Taylor

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      Title: A Collection of Scotch Proverbs

      Author: Anonymous

      Commentator: Archer Taylor

      Editor: Pappity Stampoy

      Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7018]

      This file was first posted on February 23, 2003

      Last Updated: July 3, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A COLLECTION OF SCOTCH PROVERBS ***

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      A COLLECTION OF SCOTCH PROVERBS.

      By Anonymous

      Collected by Pappity Stampoy

      1663

      With an Introduction by Archer Taylor

      GENERAL EDITORS  RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan  RALPH COHEN, University of California, Los Angeles  VINTON A. DEARING, University of California, Los Angeles  LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL, Clark Memorial Library

      ASSISTANT EDITOR  W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan

      ADVISORY EDITORS  EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington  BENJAMIN BOYCE, Duke University  LOUIS BREDVOLD, University of Michigan  JOHN BUTT, King's College, University of Durham  JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia  University  ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University of Chicago  EDWARD NILES HOOKER, University of California, Los Angeles  LOUIS A. LANDA, Princeton University  SAMUEL H. MONK, University of Minnesota  ERNEST C. MOSSNER, University of Texas  JAMES SUTHERLAND, University College; London  H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY  EDNA C. DAVIS, Clark Memorial Library

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

      A COLLECTION OF SCOTCH PROVERBS.

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      INTRODUCTION

      In his collection of Scottish proverbs from literary texts written before 1600 Bartlett Jere Whiting has laid a solid foundation for the investigation of early Scottish proverbs and has promised a survey of later collections. 1 The following brief remarks are not intended to anticipate his survey but rather to suggest the place of this particular collection in the historical development and to point out the questions that it raises. Before 1600 men in Scotland had begun to make collections of proverbs. A manuscript collection made by Archbishop James Beaton (1517-1603) seems to have disappeared, but may survive in a form disguised beyond all chance of recognition. Although editions of it published in 1610, 1614, and divers other Years with Mr. Fergusson's Additions have been reported, no copies of them have been found. 2 Mr. Fergusson is no doubt David Fergusson (ca. 1525-1598), whose Scottish Proverbs was published at Edinburgh in 1641. 3 This collection presumably includes the earlier gatherings by Beaton and Fergusson, but is arranged in a rough alphabetical order that makes it impossible to recognize its possible sources. According to Beveridge, it contains 911 proverbs.4 A new edition of 1659 and the subsequent editions down to and including that of 1716 announced themselves as Nine hundred and fourty Scottish Proverbs.

      In the edition of 1667, according to Beveridge, The proverbs are numbered to 945; but no doubt there are omissions, as in ... 1692. The edition of 1692 also runs to 945, with 14 numbers omitted and one number duplicated, making a total of 932, and in the edition of 1706 a fifteenth number is omitted. 5 No information about

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