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