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Haud a bank in your ain band.
Hae gars a deaf man hear.
230 Hair and mair make the carl's beard bare.
Hame is hame if it were ever sae hamely.
Hand in use is father of lair.
Handle the pudding while it is het.
Hang hunger and drown drouth.
235 Hap and a halfpenny is gear enough.
Have ye gear have ye nane, tin heart and a's gane
He brings a staff to break his ain head.
He comes after with the rake than the shool.
He complains early that complains of his bwil(illegible text).
240 He cares ane whose bairn greets if his laugh.
He can say so and think it no.
He can bite his meat and seek mair.
He can see an inch before his nose.
He does na ay ride when he saddles his horse.
245 He fells twa dogs with ae stane.
He gat his kail in a riven dish.
He has gotten the boat and the better beast.
He has mickle prayer but little devotion.
He has come to good by misguiding.
250 He has an eye in his neck.
He has a bee in his bonnet lug.
He has gotten a bite of his ain bridle.
He has the best end of the string.
He has it of kind, be coft it not.
255 He has feather'd his nest he may flee when he likes
He has couped the meikle dish into the little.
He has gotten the whip hand of him.
He has licket the butter aff my bread.
He has a crap for a' corn.
260 He kens na a B by a bull's foot.
He kens whilk side his cake is butter'd on.
He'll no let grass grow at his heels.
He'll gie you the whistle of your groat.
He'll tell it to nae mair than he meets.
265 He'll mak an ill runner that canna gang.
