Excerpt from The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood: Comprising a Dialogue of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue Concerning Marriages First Hundred Epigrams Three Hundred Epigrams on Three Hundred Proverbs the Fifth Hundred Epigrams A Sixth Hundred Epigrams Miscellanies Ballads Note-

Among other things profiting in our tongue -

Those which much may profit both old and young,

Such as on their fruit will feed or take hold -

Are our common plain pithy proverbs old.

Some sense of some of which, being bare and rude,

Yet to fine and fruitful effect they allude.

And their sentences include so large a reach,

That almost in all things good lessons they teach. [why?

This write I, not to teach, but to touch: for

Men know this as well or better than I.

But this, and this rest, I write for this,

Rememb'ring and considering what the pith is:

That, by remembrance of these, proverbs may grow.

In this tale, erst talked with a friend, I show

As many of them as we could fitly find

Falling to purpose, that might fall in mind;

To th'intent that the reader readily may

Find them, and mind them, when he will alway.

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