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"Good to be merie and wise."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
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"Beaten with his owne rod."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
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"Haste maketh waste."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
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"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man 's without a shirt."
John Heywood / Be Merry Friends.
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"The fat is in the fire."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low."
John Heywood / Be Merry Friends.
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"All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland."
John Heywood / The Green Willow.
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"And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"When the sunne shineth, make hay."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"Beware of, Had I wist."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii.
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"When the iron is hot, strike."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Time trieth troth in every doubt."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"More frayd then hurt."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
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"Enough is as good as a feast."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.
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"All is well that endes well."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"A sleveless errand."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vii.
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"A woman hath nine lives like a cat."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"Better to give then to take."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
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"All thing is the woorse for the wearing."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
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"Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Small pitchers have wyde eares."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"To robbe Peter and pay Poule."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Set all at sixe and seven."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"The rolling stone never gathereth mosse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Though chaunge be no robbry."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"Set the cart before the horse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"When all candles bee out, all cats be gray."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
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"Better is to bow then breake."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
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"Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Cut my cote after my cloth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.
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"Love me litle, love me long."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.
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"Rule the rost."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
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"It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Might have gone further and have fared worse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
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"She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Beggars should be no choosers."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.
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"When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Shee had seene far in a milstone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"The wise man sayth, store is no sore."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
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"To hold with the hare and run with the hound."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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