A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1475, 1597-1598
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Martin, -tyn, -teine, Merteine.2 In the proverb the allusion is certainly to Martin, the monkey in Reynard the Fox, who counselled that every man should look after his own interests. It seems possible that the allusion in the Wall. quot. is the same. —c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 383.
[On April 23,] Till him raid v … And said sone, ‘Scot, Martyns fysche we wald hawe’ a1598 Ferg. Prov. No. 253.
Everie man for himself (quoth the merteine [MS. Schir Marteine; Carmichael S. Martin])
