John Heywood (1497?-1580?)

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1. Of a Painter
2. Of Loving a Dog
3. Jack and His Father
4. Of an Old Wooer
5. Of Drinking to a Man
6. Of Peter and Paul
7. Of Sight and Mind
8. Wisdom and Folly
9. Of Catching a Fly
10. Of Lack
11. Of Disdain
12. Of One that Would Be Praised
13. Of Need and Law
14. Of Cole-Prophet
15. Of Store
16. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 5. The devil is dead: nay, the devil is in sown
17. Of Blowing
18. Of Few Words
19. Of Weakness and Strength
20. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 3. The devil is dead: who shall inherit his land?
21. Of Late and Never
22. Of Looking Out
23. Bowing and Breaking
24. Of Reeds and Oaks
25. Of Things Unlike
26. A Deliverance from Ill
27. Of Robbing
28. Of a Buying a Coat
29. Two Blind Men
30. Of Hogstown
31. Of Prayer
32. Of a Man of Law and His Clients
33. A Hearer of a Sermon
34. Of a Face and a Wit
35. Of the Highway and a Maid’s Face
36. Of One Fearing the Sweat
37. A Wife’s Defence of Her Beetle Brow
38. Of a Man and a Clock
39. Of Fortune
40. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 2. The devil is dead: one devil is dead, but we see
41. To Walk, Talk, Drink, or Sleep
42. Of the End of the Wit
43. A Fool’s Tongue
44. Of Peter
45. A Prisoner
46. A Praise of One
47. Of Writing a Gentleman
48. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. 1. The devil is dead: then hast thou lost a friend
49. Of an Unkindly March
50. Of a Man’s Head and the Pillory
51. Of Going to Heaven and Hell
52. Of a Horse Wearing Great Breeches
53. The Master and the Man
54. What God Said to One. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
55. Of Dwelling
56. Of a False Brag
57. Precepts of a Man to His Wife
58. Of Least and Most Mastery
59. Of Wits
60. Of Foreknowledge. The same Impugned without Change, except four or five
61. Of a Man of Law and His Wife
62. Of Lightness
63. Of Red Testons
64. Of a Debtor
65. To the Flatterer
66. Of Newgate Windows
67. Of a Stepmother
68. Of Patience
69. Of Looking
70. Of Red Roses
71. Of Waiting
72. Of Heads
73. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?
74. Of Buying a Mortar
75. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
76. Of Good News to a Man
77. Of One Saying of a Hat
78. A Reward to a Service Man
79. Of a Lanthorn and Light
80. Of Foreknowledge
81. Of Dogs and Thieves
82. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
83. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
84. Of Holding an Inn

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