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

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