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“Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?”

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,
With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

“Two heddis are better then one.”

John Heywood

Two heads are better than one.
Part I, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)

“To hold with the hare and run with the hound.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)

“Many handis make light warke.”

John Heywood

Many hands make light work.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)
Variant: Many hands make light work.

“Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.”

John Heywood

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546)

“Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.”

John Heywood

Some things that provoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after wedding, that haste makes waste.
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)

“And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.”

John Heywood

Proverbs (1546)
Variant: And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.

“A hard beginning makes a good ending.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)

“The moone is made of a greene cheese.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Time is tickell, and out of sight out of minde.
Than catche and holde while I may, fast binde fast finde.”

John Heywood

Time is fickle, and out of sight out of mind.
Than catch and hold while I may, fast bind fast find.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)

“Set the cart before the horse.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.”

John Heywood

Then farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
And never shall I to like riches aspire.
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)

“She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred,
I know on which syde my bread is buttred.
But there will no butter cleaue on my breade.
And on my bread any butter to be spreade.
Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter,
Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.”

John Heywood

Yes yes, said she, for all those wise words uttered,
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
But there will no butter cleave on my bread.
And on my bread any butter to be spread.
Every promise that you therein do utter,
Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)

“The wise man sayth, store is no sore.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“All thing is the woorse for the wearing.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 1.
Proverbs (1546)

“It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 8.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).