Ye're come o' blude, and sae's a pudding. (Scotch).
A retort to one who boasts of his ancestry.

Ye're early with your orders, as the bride said at the church door. (Irish).

You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow out of doors? (Gallican).

A satire on pride used in response to anyone who objects to engaging in some lowly employment because of his social position.

"You a gentleman and I a gentleman, who will milk the cow?" (Turkish). "If I am master and thou art master, who shall drive the asses?" (Arabian). "I am a queen and you are a queen so who is to fetch the water?" (Hindustani).

You cackle often but never lay an egg. (English).

You have broken my head and now you bring a plaster. (Spanish).

You

may catch a hare with a tabor as soon. (English).

See Curious Proverbial Similes: "Like a sow playing on a trump.'

Hazlitt suggests that this retort may have arisen from the satirical drawing of a hare playing on a tabor.

"It is astonishing what may be effected by constant exertion and continually tormenting even the most timid and most untractable animals; for no one would readily believe that a hare could have been sufficiently emboldened to face a large concourse of spectators without expressing its alarm, and beat upon a tambourine in their presence; yet such a performance was put in practice not many years back, and exhibited at Sadler's Wells; and, if I mistake not, in several other places in and about the metropolis. Neither is this whimsical spectacle a recent invention. A hare that beat the tabor is mentioned by Jonson in his comedy of Bartholomew Fayre acted at the commencement of the seventeenth century; and a representation of the feat itself, taken from a drawing on a manuscript upwards of four

hundred years old, in the Harleian Collection, is given below."—Joseph Strutt in Sports and Pastimes.

Following the above statement, Mr. Strutt gives a

copy of the picture to which reference was made.
"The poor man that gives but his bare fee, or
perhaps pleads in forma pauperis, he hunteth for
hares with a tabor, and gropeth in the darke to
find a needle in a bottle of hay."-Robert Greene.
"Environed about us, quoth he, which showeth
The nearer to the church, the farther from God.
Most part of them dwell within a thousand rod;
And yet shall we catch a hare with a tabor?
As soon as catch aught of them, and rather."
John Heywood.
The saying is also quoted by William Langland in
the fourteenth century.

You would spy faults if your eyes were out. (English).
A rebuke to one who speaks ill of his neighbour.

QUOTATION PROVERBS

"A begun turn is half ended," quo' the wife when she stuck her graip in the midden. (Scotch).

"A jocular beginning of work, which, if it went
no further, would be long enough ere it were
finished."
Alexander Hislop.
"Weel saipet is hauf shaven." (Scotch). "Boldly
ventured is half won. "A good beginning is
half the work." (German). "Two parts of work
is to begin it." (Welsh). "Begun is two-thirds
done." (Gaelic). "To begin a matter is to have
it half finished." “A man prepared has half
fought the battle." "To be lucky at the
beginning is everything." (Spanish). "It is a
small thing to run, we must start at the right
moment." A happy beginning is half the work."
(French). "For a web begun God sends thread."
(French, Italian). "A good beginning is half
the battle." (English).

“He who has begun, has half done.”—Horace.
There are many variations of the phrase. "Well
begun is half done"-which is commonly used
in France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain,
Portugal, Denmark, Holland, America, and other
lands, but in all cases they can be traced to
Hesiod, who declared that “The beginning is
half of the whole."

After he had eaten and was reclining on the sofa, he said, "Thy bread has a smell of mastick." (Arabian). "Ruse the ford as ye find it." (Scotch). "Praise the bridge which carries you over.' "Nice eaters seldom meet with a good dinner." (English).

A large stone crushed a lizard. It said, "So he who is stronger than one treats one." (Yoruba-West

Africa).

"The big fish eat the little ones, the little ones eat the shrimps, and the shrimps are forced to eat mud." (Chinese).

A monkey watches tormus.

'Look," ‚” said one, “at the guard and the crop.” (Arabian).

When the Arabs of Cairo see a base man holding an official position that seems to them degrading, they are reminded of a monkey watching bitter beans, and they quote the proverb.

"Boiled tormus beans are sold in the morning at the bázár and principally eaten by children without either salt or butter. The meal of this bean is used instead of soap by the poorer classes for washing their hands, and on this account it is very generally cultivated in Egypt.'

J. L. Burckhardt.

A splinter entered the sound eye of a one-eyed person, "I wish you good-night," said he. (Arabian).

Having lost the sight of his one sound eye he became
totally blind so that it was always night to him.
"Never judge by appearances." (English).

At a watering place they say, "Lift for me.” (Oji-
West African).

Watering place in the sense of a place where water is obtained, as, for example, a well. At such a place the women say to each other, "Help me to lift my full waterpot on my head," for that is the manner of carrying water.

"A little help does a great deal." "Soon or late the strong need the help of the weak.' 'A little

thing often helps." (French). "A little thing
often brings great help." "Many can help one.
(German). A willing helper does not wait until
he is asked." (Danish). "Even the just have
need of help." (Italian).

Confucius said, "A man without distant care must have

near sorrow." (Chinese).

That is, a man who does not consider the future will
soon have sorrow.

"He who looks not before finds himself behind."
(French). "He who does not look before him
must take misfortune for his earnings." (Danish).
"He that will not look before him must look
behind him"-with vain regret. (Gaelic).
"The wise man is on his guard against what is to
come as if it were the present."-Publilius Syrus.

Confucius said: "The inferior man's capacity is small and easily filled up; the superior person's intelligence is deep and difficult to overflow." (Chinese).

"Fate assigns all things," say the indolent and base. (Sanskrit).

A reproof to those who excuse their ill doings on the
ground that they are under the power of fate.
"He that does amiss never lacks excuses. "Any
excuse will serve when one has not a mind to do
a thing.' (Italian). "Everyone is the maker of
his own fate." (English).

"Every man is the maker of his own fortune."(Sallust).

"Gie her her will, or she'll burst,” quo' the man when his wife kamed his head with the three-legged stool. (Scotch).

He first promises a thing and then, "Get out of the way!" (Osmanli).

"He first makes me a promise, then when I go to him and ask for the fulfilment of his pledge he tells me to get out of the way.

Applied to people who do not keep their promises.

"He fled, disgrace upon him!" is better than "He was slain, God have mercy upon him!" (Arabian). See Bible Proverbs-Old Testament: dog is better than a dead lion." Applied in derision to a cowardly soldier.

"A living