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