John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“An ill weed grows apace.”
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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