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