More from John Heywood

  1. 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…
  2. Good to be merry and wise.
  3. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
  4. Look ere ye leap.
  5. He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.
  6. The fat is in the fire.
  7. When the sun shineth, make hay.
  8. The tide tarrieth no man.

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