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\n## SCOTS PROVERBSand Rhymes\n\n## SCOTS\n\nPROVERBSand RhymesSelected and compiled  \nwith  \nintroduction,commentsand a glossaryby  \n## FORBES MACGREGOR\n\nILlustrated by MACKAY  \nTHE MORAY PRESSEDINBURGH  \n1948  \n## INTRODUCTION\n\nALTHOUGH many nations of the ancient and medieval worldwere noted for their wealth of proverbs,the Scots had a pre-eminent reputation in this respect.It was said in Englandthat no Scot could talk without using a proverb.The Scotsthus held,until comparatively recent times,this reputation forterse and sententious language and they were exceptionallyreluctant,even after the Union in I707,to abandon theirancient modes of thought and speech.  \nThis disinclination for change was due to several factors,the chief of which was a popular prejudice against England;it was because England was the source,or at any rate thechannel,of the knowledge gained by the new scientific methods,that Scottish feeling was,by mere association,directed againstthose new ideas.Such a feeling,which amounted to hatred,was not lessened even by the great contributions to the newage of the many Scottish philosophers,historians,scientistsand political theorists like Robertson,Hume,Watt and AdamSmith.Indeed the achievements of these men and theirfollowers,throughout the I8th century,widened the gulfbetween the two Scotlands:one resisted,the other encouraged,the imposition of intellectual conformity with England.  \nIt is considered that the friction between the ancient andmodern worlds of thought helped to ignite the genius of bothBurns and Scott.  \nBurns,although well educated along the new lines,gainednational popularity by his championship of the older Scotlandof the proverbs and songs:but even before his short lifeclosed,this resurgence of national spirit was much discredited,in certain infuential political quarters,on account of itsassociation with the ideals of the French Revolution.  \nScott was not of the same political colour as Burns,sohis decision to devote his talents mainly to the depicting ofthe fast-disappearing Doric world arose more from a dislikeof the bustling industrialism of the early nineteenth centurythan from a political bias in favour of a resurgent nationalism.However this may be,his novels,which embody hundreds ofScots proverbs,form the perfect complement to Burns'spoems;and so the two geniuses,different in outlook,leftfor future generations a true perspective of that vanished  \nScottish world with its quaint manners and turns of expression.  \nUnfortunately,as Scott anticipated,he,as well as Burns,was to be followed by multitudes of imitators,who succeededgenerally in making mere parodies of the literary achievementsof their masters.These imitators include most of the Kailyardwriters,who provide the whipping-boys for many modernScottish critics.In this Kailyard period Scots proverbs wereno doubt overworked and ultimately sank into disrepute alongwith the other contemporary modes in literature.  \nThis was unfortunate,as many of the salty and racyproverbs gave an invaluable picture of the intransigentScottish character.It is my purpose in this booklet to makea fresh presentation of whatever proverbial expressions seemto me to be the most colourful and at the same time mostpeculiarly Scottish.Apart from their interest and humour,they may help to discredit the libels on Scottish characterwhich have passed current for a long time both at home andfurth of Scotland.  \nMr.John Mackay,the illustrator,and myself are aboriginalScots and we hope that our combined efforts have succeededin creating through the proverbial medium a just and pleasingpicture of our nation.If we needed a reason for bringingforward these almost forgotten sayings,I believe we couldfind that reason best expressed in a Scots proverb itself:‘Auld men will die and bairns will sune forget.  \nF.M.","cbCainPOXsCKVEx0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainPOXsCKVEx0","pdf",2074689,56,"English","# INTRODUCTION\n## Background of Scots 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