Fergusson's Scottish Proverbs From the Original Print of 1641 Together with a larger Manuscript Collection EDITED BY ERSKINE BEVERIDGE, LL.D. Printed for the Society by WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS MCMXXIV Printed in Great Britain All Rights reserved Ford-7 Sath. 4-4-25 sub. -Messer PREFACE. SOME years ago the late Dr Erskine Beveridge, whose contributions to Scottish history and archæology are well known, offered to edit these proverbs from Fergusson's original print of 1641 and from an augmented MS. collection of the early seventeenth century in his own possession. He was working on this edition to within a short time of his death in 1920. It was, however, incomplete, and Mrs Beveridge most generously offered to contribute towards the expenses of completion and publication. The revision was entrusted to Mr J. D. Westwood, M.A., of George Heriot's School, who has completed the glossarial notes and vastly extended the list of proverbs traced in earlier Scottish and English works. He has also added the footnotes, which may serve to show the extent to which later collections of Scottish proverbs are indebted to Fergusson. Mr West |