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Quotes from Proverbs — John Heywood

1497–1580 England

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Love me litle, love me long.

Proverbs (1546)

When all candels be out, all cats be grey,
All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.
And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,
Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.

Proverbs (1546)

The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée
Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)

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We both be at our wittes end.

Proverbs (1546)

Cut my cote after my cloth.

Proverbs (1546)

Many handis make light warke.

Proverbs (1546)

Set the cart before the hors.

Proverbs (1546)

A penny for your thought.

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.

Proverbs (1546)

So many heads so many wits.

Proverbs (1546)

True (quoth Ales) thinges doone can not be vndoone,
Be they done in due tyme, to late, or to soone,
But better late than neuer to repent this,
To late (quoth my aunt) this repentance showd is,
Whan the stéede is stolne shut the stable durre.

Proverbs (1546)

To robbe Peter and pay Poule.

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Nought venter nought have.

Proverbs (1546)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Heywood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.