John Heywood (1497?-1580?)

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

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