2.  A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, explained and made intelligible to the English reader, by James Kelly, M.A., published in London 1721.

3.  Scottish Proverbs gathered together by David Fergusson, sometime minister at Dunfermline, and put ordine alphabetico when he departed this life anno 1598.  Edinburgh, 1641.

4.  A collection of Scots Proverbs, dedicated to the Tenantry of Scotland, by Allan Ramsay.  This collection is found in the edition of his Poetical Works, 3 vols. post 8vo, Edin. 1818, but is not in the handsome edition of 1800.  London, 2 vols. 8vo.

5.  Scottish Proverbs, collected and arranged by Andrew Henderson, with an introductory Essay by W. Motherwell.  Edin. 1832.

6.  The Proverbial Philosophy of Scotland, an address to the School of Arts, by William Stirling of Keir, M.P.  Stirling and Edin. 1855.

The collection of Ray, the great English naturalist, is well known.  The first two editions, published at Cambridge in 1670 and 1678, were by the author; subsequent editions were by other editors.

The work by James Kelly professes to collect Scottish proverbs only.  It is a volume of nearly 400 pages, and contains a short explanation or commentary attached to each, and often parallel sayings from other languages[83].  Mr. Kelly bears ample testimony to the extraordinary free use made of proverbs in his time by his countrymen and by himself.  He says that “there were current in society upwards of 3000 proverbs, exclusively Scottish.”  He adds, “The Scots are wonderfully given to this way of speaking, and, as the consequence of that, abound with proverbs, many of which are very expressive, quick, and home to the purpose; and, indeed, this humour prevails universally over the whole nation, especially among the better sort of the commonalty, none of whom will discourse with you any considerable time but he will affirm every assertion and observation with a Scottish proverb.  To that nation I owe my birth and education; and to that manner of speaking I was used from my infancy, to such a degree that I became in some measure remarkable for it.”  This was written in 1721, and we may see from Mr. Kelly’s account what a change has taken place in society as regards this mode of intercourse.  Our author states that he has “omitted in his collection many popular proverbs which are very pat and expressive,” and adds as his reason, that “since it does not become a man of manners to use them, it does not become a man of my age and profession to write them.”  What was Mr. Kelly’s profession or what his age does not appear from any statements in this volume; but, judging by many proverbs which he has retained, those which consideration of years and of profession induced him to omit must have been bad indeed, and unbecoming for any age or any profession[84].  The third collection by Mr. Fergusson is mentioned by Kelly as the only one which had been made before