eed, and that's but soberly.

Strike the iron while it's hot.

Stuffing hauds out storms.

"Advising men to take some good thing before they travel in a bad
day."--_Kelly._

Sturt pays nae debt.

"Spoken with resentment to them who storm when we crave of them our
just debts."--_Kelly._

Sudden friendship's sure repentance.

Sue a beggar and gain a louse.

Sunday wooin' draws to ruin.

Supp'd out wort ne'er made gude ale.

"Spoken when one asks us for a drink of our wort, for what is drunk
in wort will never be ale, good or bad."--_Kelly._

Suppers kill mair than doctors cure.

Surfeits slay mair than swords.

Swear by your burnt shins.

Sweet at the on-taking, but soor in the aff-putting.

In allusion to the contraction of debt and other liabilities.

Sweet i' the bed and sweer up i' the morning was ne'er a gude housewife.

"A jocose reproof to young maids when they lie long
a-bed."--_Kelly._

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Tak a hair o' the dog that bit you.

This is a familiar rendering of the great law of Hom[oe]opathy,
_Similia similibus curantur_; but is usually interpreted thus: Sober
yourself by taking another glass.

Tak a piece; your teeth's langer than your beard.

Addressed to children who are diffident in accepting a "piece."

Tak a seat on Maggie Shaw's Crocky.

"_Maggy Shaw's Crocky_ is a broad flat stone, near to the brink of a
precipice, overhanging the sea-shore, about a mile to the north of
Eyemouth. This stone was placed over the remains of an old woman who
had hanged herself, and who is said to be frequently seen at night
sitting upon it, in the shape of a white sea-mew--sitting lonely on
the

"'glitty stane,
Green wi' the dow o' the jauping main.'"--_G. Henderson._

Tak a tune on your ain fiddle; ye'll dance till't afore it's dune.

"'I can hear no remonstrances,' he continued, turning away from the
Bailie, whose mouth was open to address him; 'the service I am on
gives me no time for idle discussions.' 'Aweel, aweel, sir,' said
the Bailie, 'you're welcome to a tune on your ain fiddle; but see if
I dinna gar ye dance till't afore a's dune.'"--_Rob Roy._

"But sen ze think it easy thing
To mount aboif the mune,
Of our awin fidle tak a spring,
And daunce quhen ze haif done."--_Cherrie and the Slae._

Tak care o' tha