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"To tell tales out of schoole."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Many hands make light warke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"The still sowe eats up all the draffe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"I know on which side my bread is buttred."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

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"Like will to like."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

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"All is fish that comth to net."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"All is not Gospell that thou doest speake."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.

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"Every man for himselfe and God for us all."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

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"Love me, love my dog."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

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"A fooles bolt is soone shot."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iii.

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"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

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"Ill weede growth fast."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

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"Two heads are better then one."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

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"This hitteth the naile on the hed."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. xi.

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"The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"By hooke or crooke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

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"He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

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"We both be at our wittes end."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.

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"Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"Reckeners without their host must recken twice."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.

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"A cat may looke on a King."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

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"Burnt child fire dredth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ii.

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"Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.

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"A peny for your thought."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.

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"I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"New brome swepth cleene."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i.

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"One swallow maketh not summer."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

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"Rome was not built in one day."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"Children and fooles cannot lye."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"Better late than never."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

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"Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"I perfectly feele even at my fingers end."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vi.

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"Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

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"Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

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"So many heads so many wits."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

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"Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

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"A day after the faire."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii.

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"Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

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"Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

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"The wrong sow by th' eare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

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"While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

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"A short horse is soone currid."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

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"The moe the merrier."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.

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"The grey mare is the better horse."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.

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