Part 81 (1/2)

Play's gude while it's play

Pleading at the law is like fighting through a whin bush--the harder the blows the sairer the scarts

The knowledge that ”whin bush” is the furze renders this saying easily intelligible

Please your kiossip

Please yoursel and ye'll no dee o' the pet

Plenty is nae plague

Plenty maks dainty

Poets and painters are aye poor

This appears in no collection preceding Henderson's, and is probably a record of his own experience and that of his friends, he being a painter himself by profession, and on intimate terms with Motherwell and others

Poets and painters hae liberty to lo'e

Poor folk are fain o' little

Poor folk

Poor folk seek meat for their stamacks, and rich folk stamacks for their meat

Poor folk's friends soon ude company

Poortith's better than pride

Poortith's pain, but nae disgrace

Poortith taks awa pith

”'I tell you, Master Moniplies,' said Jenkin, 'I a you I have brokenthe country' 'A-well-a-day!' said Ritchie 'But that maunna be, man I ken weel, by sad experience, that poortith takes away pith, and the man sits full still that has a rent in his breeks'”--_Fortunes of Nigel_

Poortith wi' patience is less painfu'

Possession's worth an ill charter

Poverty's a bad back friend

Praise without profit puts little i' the pat

Prayer and practice is gude rhyme