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. Of Lack
9. Of Catching a Fly
10. Of Disdain
11. Wisdom and Folly
12. Of One that Would Be Praised
13. Of Need and Law
14. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 5. The devil is dead: nay, the devil is in sown
15. Of Store
16. Of Cole-Prophet
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. Bowing and Breaking
23. Of Things Unlike
24. Of Hogstown
25. Of Reeds and Oaks
26. Of a Buying a Coat
27. Of Looking Out
28. Of Prayer
29. Of Robbing
30. Of the Highway and a Maid’s Face
31. Of One Fearing the Sweat
32. A Deliverance from Ill
33. A Hearer of a Sermon
34. A Wife’s Defence of Her Beetle Brow
35. Of a Man of Law and His Clients
36. Two Blind Men
37. Of a Face and a Wit
38. Of a Man and a Clock
39. Of Fortune
40. Of the End of the Wit
41. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 2. The devil is dead: one devil is dead, but we see
42. To Walk, Talk, Drink, or Sleep
43. A Fool’s Tongue
44. A Praise of One
45. Of Writing a Gentleman
46. Of Peter
47. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. 1. The devil is dead: then hast thou lost a friend
48. Of an Unkindly March
49. Of Going to Heaven and Hell
50. Of a Horse Wearing Great Breeches
51. Of a Man’s Head and the Pillory
52. A Prisoner
53. Of Dwelling
54. The Master and the Man
55. Of a False Brag
56. Of Least and Most Mastery
57. Precepts of a Man to His Wife
58. Of a Man of Law and His Wife
59. Of Lightness
60. What God Said to One. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
61. Of Red Testons
62. Of Foreknowledge. The same Impugned without Change, except four or five
63. Of Wits
64. To the Flatterer
65. Of a Debtor
66. Of Newgate Windows
67. Of a Stepmother
68. Of Patience
69. Of Looking
70. Of Red Roses
71. Of Heads
72. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?
73. Of Waiting
74. Of Buying a Mortar
75. Of Foreknowledge
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 Dogs and Thieves
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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