collections already mentioned. In four collections which remain to
be discussed we can reckon with a close direct or indirect connection
with Fergusson's printed text. John Ray printed Fergusson's collection
in a partially anglicized form with minor changes and additions of
uncertain origin in _A Collection of English Proverbs_ (London,
1670). This book became, after several editions, the foundation of
the standard modern collections. Except for anglicization, "D" in Ray,
and Fergusson, 1641, agree exactly even to _tearm_ [term] in "Dead
and marriage make tearm-day." Variations not found in the edition of
1641 like _reply_ for _plie_ [plea] in "Na plie is best" and
_churn_ for _kirne_ in "Na man can seek his marrow in the kirne, sa weill
as hee that has been in it himself" suggest that Ray may have been
following a later edition than that of 1641. According to Beveridge
(p. xvi), Fergusson's collection also appears in _A Select Collection
of Scots Poems, Chiefly in the Broad Buchan Dialect_ (Edinburgh, 1777,
1785). The two editions are the same, except that that of 1777 has no
publisher's name and that of 1785 was issued by T. Ruddiman and Co. The
proverbs come at the end and are paged separately.

Finally, Fergusson's collection was the source of both this collection
bearing the mysterious name Pappity Stampoy and a derivative of it,
but again with some modifications. Since all the variations except
the Latin parallel texts that are, according to Beveridge (pp.
xxxvii-xxxix), characteristic of the edition of Fergusson published
in 1692 are present in Pappity Stampoy, these variations must have
been introduced into one or both of the editions of 1649 and 1659.
With such information as is at present available it is impossible to
determine whether Pappity Stampoy's rare additions were his own or
were also derived, as seems probable, from an edition of Fergusson.
Such proverbs as "Drunken wife gat ay the drunken penny" (Pappity Stampoy,