Part 62

Gude reason and part cause.

Signifying that a person has both good reason and cause to complain.

Gude to fetch sorrow to a sick wife.

Gude! ye're common to kiss your kimmer.

Gude wares may come frae an ill market.

Gude wares mak a quick market.

Gude watch hinders harm.

Gudewill ne'er wants time to show itsel.

Gudewill should be ta'en in part payment.

Gude wit jumps.

Gude words cost naething.

Guessed work's best if weel done.

"Gulp!" quo' the wife when she swallowed her tongue.

Gunpowder is hasty eldin.

Gust your gab wi' that.

"He's no ill boden, That gusts his gab wi' oyster sauce, An' hen weel soden."--Fergusson.

Gut nae fish till ye get them.

Ha' binks are sliddry.

"Great men's favours are uncertain."--Kelly.

Had I fish was never gude to eat mustard.

"An answer to them that say, Had I such a thing, I would do so or so."--Kelly.

"Had I wist," quo' the fool.

Had you sic a shoe on ilka foot, you would shochel.

Or, had you my sorrows to bear, you would look equally miserable.

Hae! gars a deaf man hear.

Hae God, hae a'.

Hae, lad,--rin, lad; that maks an olite lad.

Hae you gear or hae you nane, tine heart and a' is gane.