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Transcriber’s Notes:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained.
Footnote [38]: The last paragraph lacks a closing quote mark; this has
not been changed, since it is not clear where the quote ends.
Prov. 139: gambette may be a misspelling of jambette (jack-knife) in
Bigelow’s work.
Prov. 177: zozos pariaca may be an error for zozos paliaca.
Changes made to the text:
Footnotes have been moved to directly under the proverb they refer to.
Obvious punctuation errors and missing punctuation have been corrected
silently.
i.e. and i. e. have been standardised to i.e.