r the
blows the sairer the scarts.

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

Please your kimmer, and ye'll easy guide your gossip.

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 maun fit their wame to their winning.

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

Poor folk's friends soon misken them.

Poortith pairts gude company.

Poortith's better than pride.

Poortith's pain, but nae disgrace.

Poortith taks awa pith.

"'I tell you, Master Moniplies,' said Jenkin, 'I am as poor as any
Scot among you. I have broken my indenture, and I think of running
the 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.

Pretty man, I maun say; tak a peat and sit down.

We are unable to make much either of this proverb or of Kelly's note
to it--"An ironical expression to a mean boy who would gladly be
esteemed."

Pride and grace ne'er dwell in ae place.

Pride an' sweer'dness need muckle uphaudin.

"Sweer'd," lazy or unwilling. Pride and laziness require much to
support them.

Pride finds nae cauld.

"Spoken heretofore to young women when, in compliance with the
fashion, they went with their breasts and shoulders bare; and may
now (1721) be applied to ladies with their extravagant
hoops."--_Kelly._

Pride ne'er leaves its maister till he get a fa'.

Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.

That is, pride bedecks herself, and the devil despoils.

Pride's an ill horse to ride.

Pride that dines wi' vanity sups wi' contempt.

Pride will hae a fa'.

Provision in season maks a bien house.

Prudence should