“To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.”

— John Heywood

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

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English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of p… 1497–1580

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