Pappity Stampoy

“ A fool may give a wise man a counsell.
A man may speir the gate to Rome.
As long fives the merry-man, as the wretch for all the craft he can.
All wald have all, all wald forgive.
Ane may lead a Horse to the water, but four and twenty cannot gar him drink.
A bleat Cat makes a proud Mouse.
An ill-willy Cow should have short horns.
A good piece steil is worth a penny.
A shored Tree stands long.
A gloved Cat was never a good Hunter.
A gangan foot is ay getting, and it were but a thorn.
All is not gold that glitters.
Ane Swallow makes no summer. ”

“ He that spends his geir on a whore, hes both shame and skaith.
Hunger is good Kitchir-meat.
He mon have leave to speak that cannot had his tongue.
He that is far from his geir, is near his skaith.
He that lippens to bon plows, his land will ly ley.
He rides sicker that fell never.
Help thy self, and God will help thee.
He that will not hear motherhead, shall hear stepmotherhead.
He that crabs without cause, should mease without mends.
He that spares to speak, spares to speed. ”

“ He is not the fool that the fool is, but he that with the fool deals.
He loves me for little that hates me for nought.
He that hes twa huirds, is able to get the third.
He is a fairy beggar that may not goe by ane mans door.
Hall-binks are fliddery.
He is not the best Wright that hews the maniest speals.
He that evill does, never good weins.
Hoordom and grace, can never bide in one place.
He that counts all costs, will never put plow in the yeard.
He that slayes, shall be slain.
He that is ill of his harbery, is good of his way kenning. ”

“ Two fools in ane house, is over many.
The day hes eyne, the night hes ears.
The more ye tramp in a ——- it grows the broader.
That which hussies spares, Cats eat.
The weakest goes to the walls.
There is no medicine for fear.
Touch a gall'd Horse on the back and he will fling.
There is no fool to an old fool.
There is none without a fault.
The longer we live, the more farlies we see. ”

“ As long as ye bear the tod, ye man bear up his tail.
All overs are ill but over the water.
A man may wooe where he will, but wed where is his weard.
A mean pot plaid never even.
Among twenty four fools not ane wise man.
Ane mans meat is another mans poyson.
A fool will not give his Bauble for the Tower of London.
A foul foot makes a son wemb.
A man is a Lyon in his own cause. ”

“ 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. ”

“ All things hath a beginning, God excepted.
A blind man should not judge of colours.
A good fellow tint never, but at an ill fellows hand.
All the Corn in the Country is not shorn by the Kempers. ”

“ It is weil warit that wasters warn geir.
It is ill to bring but the thing that is not thereben.
It that lies not in your gate, breaks not your shins.
It is na play where ane greits, and another laughs.
If a man knew what would be dear, he would be but Merchant for a year.
It is true that all men sayes.
I have a good bow, but it is in the Castle.
It is hard to fling at the brod, or kick at the prick.
Ilk man mend ane, and all will be mendit.
It is a fairy collop that is tane off a Capon.
Ill bairns are best heard at home.
It is ill to waken sleeping dogs. ”

“ Hald in geir, helps well.
Hunting, hawking, and paramours, for one joy an hundred displeasures.
He that marries e're he be wise, will die e're he thrive.
He that marries a Daw, eats meikle dirt.
Huly and fair men rides far journeys.
Hast makes wast.
He that looks not e're he loup, will fall e're he wit of himself. ”

“ Quhen all men speaks, no man hears.
Quhen the Tod preaches, beware of the hens.
Quhen the belly is full the bones would be at rest.
Quhen the cup is fullest, bear it evenest.
Qhuen thieves reckons, leal men comes to their geir.
R.
Ryme spares no man.
Ruse the fair day at even.
Rhue and time, grows both in ane garden.
Reason band the man.
Rome was not bigged on the first Day.
Racklesse youth makes a goustie Age.
Reavers should not be rewers.
Rule youth well, and eild will rule it fell. ”

“ It is kindly that the poke fair of the Herring.
It is eich to cry yule on another man's cost;
Ilk a man as he loves, let him send to the Cooks,
It is eith to swim where the head is hild up.
It is weil warit they have sorrow, that buyes it with their silver.
If ane will not, another will. ”

“ In preparing Beveridge's materials for publication, Bruce Dickins came upon a second "roughly contemporary" manuscript containing an unspecified number of proverbs (pp. 126-127) . It contains some texts found in both the first manuscript and the book of 1641 and some entirely new texts, and agrees in one instance with the book against the manuscript and in another with the manuscript against the book. ”

“ If ye wanted me, and your meat, you would want ane good friend.
K.
Kindnesse lies not ay in ane side of the house.
Kings caff is worth other mens corn.
Kame single, kame fair.
Kings have a long ears.
Kindnesse comes of will.
Kindnesse will creep where it may not gang.
Kail spares bread.
Kindnesse cannot be bought for geir. ”

“ Sain you will fra the Devil, and the Lairds bairns.
Small winning makes a heavy purse.
Sike answer as a man gives, sike will he get.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
T.
Two Wolves may worry ane Sheep.
There is remead for all things but starke dead. ”

“ Wood in wildernesse, & strength in a fool.
Weapons bodes peace.
Wiles help weak folk.
Waken not sleeping dogs.
Women and bairns keep counsell of that they ken not.
We hounds flew the Hare, quoth the messoun.
Wishers and woulders are poor householders.
Weil worth aw, that gars the plough draw.
Words are but winde, but dunts are the Devill.
With empty hand no man should hawks allure. ”

“ The collection has some value to a student of proverbs for a few scantily recorded texts that have presumably been taken from the 1659 edition of Fergusson. Although they do not appear in the old standard collections made by Bohn, Apperson, and Hazlitt, Morris P. Tilley, who has used R. B.'s collection, has found and pinned them down. More interesting and important than such details about the recording of proverbs is the publication of Pappity Stampoy's book in London. It is therefore an early instance of English interest in Scottish proverbs. ”

“ Except for anglicization, "D" in Ray, and Fergusson, 1641, agree exactly even to tearm [term] in "Dead and marriage make tearm-day." Variations not found in the edition of 1641 like reply for plie [plea] in "Na plie is best" and churn for kirne in "Na man can seek his marrow in the kirne, sa weill as hee that has been in it himself" suggest that Ray may have been following a later edition than that of 1641. According to Beveridge (p. xvi) , Fergusson's collection also appears in A Select Collection of Scots Poems, Chiefly in the Broad Buchan Dialect (Edinburgh, 1777, 1785) . ”

“ Nothing is difficile to a weill willed man.
Need gars naked men run, and sorrow gars Websters spin.
No man can seek his marrow in the Kirn, so weil as he that hes bin in it himself.
No man makes his own hap. ”

“ Ane year a Nurish, seven years a Daw.
Ane ill word begets another, and it were at at the Bridge at London.
A Wool-seller kens a Wool-buyer.
Auld men are twice bairns.
All fellows, Jock and the Laird.
A hasty man never wanted woe. ”

“ Under another letter he may give a run of proverbs in reverse order." 6
Pappity Stampoy, who was scarcely an honorable man, soon got a Roland for his Oliver. As Wilson says, the Adagia Scotica or a Collection of Scotch Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, Collected by R. B. Very Usefull and Delightfull (London: Nathaniel Brooke, 1668) "Turns out to be a page-for-page reprint ... provided with a new title and the initials of a new collector in order (is it unjust to say?) to deceive customers." ”