The Proverbs of John Heywood Ed 1874
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HEYWOOD.
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his
Of yestie
ale,
His goutie
And
Merrie go sorrie
But then
fillip it.
*
hey,
my hearts
my heart
!'
1599.
HEYWOOD.
BEING THE "PROVERBES" OF THAT
AUTHOR PRINTED
EDITED,
1546.
BY JULIAN SHARMAN.
LONDON:
GEORGE BELL AND
SONS,
YORK
COVENT GARDEN.
1874.
STREET,
CHISWICK
I'KliSS
PRINTED
BY
TO MY FRIEND,
BOURCHIER
F.
THIS
HAWKSLEY,
VOLUME
DEDICATED.
IS
Esq.,
INTRODUCTION.
I
HE
traditions of old
Saxon
literature
by
rust
invasion; even
But the
Erasmus had
and learning;
scattered
No
earlier
gems of
speet3\.
no
threads of idiom
together.
Everywhere
INTRODUCTION.
viii
Still less
We
know
humour
that what-
ever was
memorable or captivating
in the old-world
literature
was accustomed to be
sense of property
in
be the wit of
many
Such
gradually
lost,
that
grew
to
itself sufficient
from
desuetude,
farceur worked
to
even
had
not
the
mightily towards
of their
its
Saxon
professional
preservation.
forefathers
had
still
common
continued to
we
think
upon a
able
by reverence and by
were,
heirloom vener-
antiquity.
it
we
Antiquity was
Already patient monas-
INTRODUCTION.
and sentences
in
ix
wrought
we
process
In this
much
as the
first
long
effort
and
saltness of its
to perpetuate
stretched out, as
it
heirloom so often
until the chattel
hand
bygone
literature.
An arm
at last
of Chaucer.
Norman
It
is
might be
the
as often refused
seized,
is
is
an
but
we
vein of wit
tially
same
vitality to essen-
is
Old Saxony.
But the
may
still
ferent
soil
undergrowth.
The
dif-
INTRODUCTION.
preserved only
by verbal
In
the
maxims
some
The
wisdom remains.
still
from the
Chersonese,
"
descended
relics
are
the Tauric
Cymri
That the
of history.
torical
of that traditional
settlers
little
That they
Romans and
recoiled
of Irishmen
an abundant
mingled
is
is
his-
crop
of
to
we read
Bayeux
might have
visited
Gurths and
Wambas
by the
to learn
light
Duke of Normandy
Danish
young Norman
England
humbler Englishman
attracted
that a
Two
under the
aristocracy
to learn French.
The
fine things
fail
to be
glittered on
If the
Norman
the Englishman
/A'
TRODUC TION.
xi
When
Norman was
palate of the
crispness
was
the
gratified
luxuriating in
its
alone
In truth the
only by the
'the saying.
who was
capable
It
of
But
Norman mind
The Saxon
The Frenchman
had the run of the tavern, the boothie, and the playhouse
convent-cell
Paris
and Montpellier.
it
will
it
Neverthe-
upwards of
prints
The
prejudice of Lord
to the conversation of a
man
of breeding, would
seem
eighteenth century.
It
was not
IN TROD UC TIO N.
xii
its
litera-
In what measure
head.
it is
it
is
But here we
us
Sir
all
has been
it
left
Papistrie as a
Ascham,
"
in
our tong,
said, for
when
one
its
by
monkes
idle
wanton chanons,
or
made
as
in
In which
fowlest advoulteres
lote,
by
subtlest shiftes
as Sir
commit
Launce-
Kynge Marke,
Syr
his uncle
his
INTRODUCTION.
him
Prior to
Sir
Thomas More
xiii
writes
"
There
is
made but
for idel
tome
bee
full
hede
my
is
of,
war and
to reade, have
love.
What
none
a cus-
it
countrey in Spayne
rante, Tristane,
bee
in
naughtynes.
fokes, such as
Launcelote du Lake,
neyne.
In
Flanders
Flbry and
Whyte
flowre
and Thisbe.
In England
Parthenope, Genarides,
Guye and
Bevis,
and many
and
Livius
other,
and some
Those monastic
heard, were the
less
writings, which, as
work
of "
Ascham had
wanton canons
"
or worth-
going times.
presses
of
fore-
the
INTRODUCTION.
xiv
most
inhistoric
Germany and
of romances.
But already
own
Polydore Vergil
country,
in
in our
and a
classic,
The author
popular imagination.
myng had
of Elinour
John Heywood.
and a
Rum-
Then came
Thomas More,
proteg6 of Sir
it.
Heywood might
Cranes.
rhymes
There
is
Heywood made
little
doubt
Heywood's book
set
working
that the
set
in
coarse
that,
in 1546,
the
rhymes
after the
for
coarse
fashionable.
appearance of
English literature.
work possessed
fashion
It
was
not, indeed,
of this
Rather was
it
was by means
losing.
That
same meaning which the romancers before him had
INTRODUCTION.
attempted to explain with an allegory,
promptly convey
in a proverb.
popular books.
its
appearance
mine of proverbs.
it
gave a
enjoyment
poets, play-writers,
its
all
Immediately on
century.
are
could
fillip
Heywood
rejected;
It
xv
capital of
speech
in the
House
of
Commons
in
which a proverb
Proverbs
for tapestry, as
sakes.
as one
For
all
Upon
It
a knife, Love
me and leave me
not.
one of
its
sayings.
being the
The due
first
much
INTR OD UCTION.
xvi
an ancient
tion
literary
landmark
He
quarianism.
accompanying
also
accumulations of
literature
is
trite
in early
English possess a
Little could
less,
by
illustrating
Though
Zoroaster or a Confucius.
or that
the
it
homely
figure
from a passage
rise
Plutarch, yet
can be no
Jerome forebore
"no
be
stone
of
in
" a
pinching
the
Lives of
less interesting
to look
to learn
a gift-horse in
:he insurgents in
I
from
"
shoe" takes
the
it
may
it
that Saint
be gained
a Solon or a Pythagoras
oracle,
a collec-
own
unturned
of anti-
believes,
His reason
that our
illustrating
field
brought together.
same
tion
by
will
in the
Wat
Tyler's rebellion
is found in
Teutonic dress in the German proverbs of Agricola.
To any reader
of the dramatists,
we
who
is
at the
same
collection, a curious
be apparent.
Such, at
take to be that similarity between
certain
)assages in
in the
INTRODUCTION.
more prominent authors of a
writings of the
day.
xvii
later
known
to Shakespeare, but
its
it is
Not
author.
Ben Jonson.
so
that author
composed
in conjunc-
tion with
Heywood
that
The same
tacit
we can imagine
the
hum
of approbation
Eastward Hoe
Proverbs
almost
is
Touchstone.
adventures.
Surely, in
Girtrude.
my
Heywood's
as the saying
Come
away,
Girtrude.
is
traveld on strange
say,
is.
111
his nose"
Goulding. O,
ends
to
parallel
now
INTR OD UC TION.
xviii
man
good husband
my
made of
gold.
child's girdle
sister,
we
or
any body.
When
of her acquaintance.
Girtrude.
scorne
thus
it, i'
faith.
Come, Sinne.
\Exit Girtrude.
O,
Mistress T.
father
.!"
follow
Thou
after, I
The same
Henry
Porter's
Women
Come,,
warrant you.
mentioned by Charles
Lamb
Two Angry
it
yet
is,
is
It is full
It is
now time
some
particulars
Was
not
Hey wood
INTR OD UCTION.
characters in Mr.
Payne
xix
work,
Collier's skilful
The
Poetical Decameron.
" I
^John Heywood,"
rejoins another.
mean
" I
Heywood who
that
is
we
one
is
title
of
P's.
involuntarily reminded
by
is
the one
The
it
further
of the tra-
proceeds
between a Pardoner, a
Four
It is
worthy of
rigid
and
play
was at
its
the
height,
satire
of
this
is
As a Catholic of
Heywood went further than a
Romish communion.
the sixteenth
century
Protestant of
and bringing to
The
who
quack
re-
who purchased
the sanctimonious
by a
sys-
INTRODUCTION.
XX
tematic
trifling
other types
these and
of the monastic
character,
little
satire
Heywood.
bene,
The mount
of Calvary have
Then
at
Rhodes
And round
sene,
sure.
also I was,
about to Amias,
He
is
interrupted
pilgrimages
are
altogether
He
un-
might have
And
The
The
soule
is
in
IN TROD UC TION.
to the gratitude of his fellows.
more
first
Whose agency
"
importance in the
xxi
many
"
That
who
is
of
is
admits
it
is
At
"
is
it
by
telling fibs
and primus of
this
exemplary
four.
The
task,
says
accustomed to
it
is
constituted umpire.
little skill
It
relating the
virtues of
and the
slippers of the
Seven Sleepers
respectable mediocrity.
on
for his
lie,
be an honest man.
the
first
that he
still
credit exactly
is
But no sooner
is
class of
the Poticary
magnitude, but
is
the
of All Hallows
called
having
trial in succession,
by
all
it
is
confessed
by
the umpire
due to each.
To meet
the difficulty
it
fact.
all,
INTRODUCTION.
xxii
The
who
Poticary
derful cure
Pardoner.
is
had undertaken
A frende of myne,
To
He had first,
and lykewyse
to
thought
I,
That sure
He had
but when
she
is in hell
was so acqueynted
thought she was not saynted.
I
tanic
realm.
associate, the
place,
is
on
earth, so
promised
isuit.
He
will
he bargains,
services, his
orgy.
the
do the
if in
infernal
by the genius of
cordially received
advances his
old
There he
his
Sa-
devil a
good turn
Majestv
INTRODUCTION.
When
soul
xxiii
told that
is
it
No
subjects,
he
declares, occasion
He
women
more
souls
disquiet to
whom weary
Accordingly the
woman
is
devices.
It
had appeared
mendacity was
to the
when
the Palmer,
out of patience.
this piece of
far
competitors to surpass,
on the other's
Pardoner that
commenting
In later times
it
would be regarded
drama
so feeble a situation
but, in the
we
see contrived
satisfied
by
blundering Palmer.
The
interlude of
is
the
in-
Mery
INTRODUCTION.
and neybour
mentioned
The
Pratte.
in
it
production prior to
1521.
is
it
conceived in a tone of
intention
its
is
to
Leo X.
of
fact
Like that
friar
and a profes
The
order
friar is
when
find purchasers
for
his
saintly
am
articles
of wearing apparel
once belonging
t(
177)
Pan
Prologue.
INTRODUCTION.
when the
curate,
xxv.
of the dis-
"
Let
me
who
It
march
Two
off
on
pieces
we have next
In neither
is
Alike
the Play of
Con-
Wether and
attraction, but
when we consider
command
to
INTRODUCTION.
xxvi
The Play
of the
Wether
may
it
is
a god.
The gentylman.
The marchaunt.
The ranger.
The water myller.
The wynde myller.
The gentylwoman.
The launder.
scene opens
by
manner of a
So great vexation, he
summoned
ment
de-
had
had previously
Having appeared
at
man were
constantly thwarted
companions
had charged
in
the
celestial
Phoebus
with
by the
action of his
government.
melting
Saturn
the morning
and rendering the labour of the night useless.
Phoebus had exclaimed against
Phoebe, whose
frost
INTRODUCTION.
showers, he
xxvii
and
Instead of re-
heat.
made common
cause
He, they
foul of Eolus.
When he
is
to
fell
said,
had been
Jupiter, then,
ferences,
Reporte,
invited
a certain mercurial
medium between
among
by the elemental
the mortals
Merry
caprices.
intelligence,
acts
and
as
it is
now
concerns
"gentylman" desiring
itself.
The
first
suitor
is
cloud
or mist,
nor no wynde to blow
For hurt
in hys huntynge.
for a
"mesurable wynde."
As
as plainly to say
there bloweth no
wynde
at al
so stout
fall
I.NTR OD UCTION.
xxviii
by the
wind-miller,
wyn
Who
But an applicant of a
different
And
who
woman
that lyveth
by laundry,
In the end, Jupiter promises to institute such a disposal of the elements that all trades in due season
may
It
this
may
comedy
all
is
It is
understanding
and
is
come
to
it.
and
At
all parties
are satisfied
depart.
passed over
all
INTRODUCTION.
librarian at
xxix
same
earlier
when
creations
stages,
who monopolized
for
the
drama
ever
in its
superseded
by comedy.
rela-
charity,
little
who
The
felt
know more
a desire to
when he
I
The
audience
may
of this philosophic
fail
replies
Of all pains
Is to
falls
conflict of opinions is
now heightened by
the
a personage
of the play.
Love
is
my
lord,
is
my feader,
is my leader
and love
INTRODUCTION.
XXX
is
ment shows
know
his
The
intimates
that
denoue-
The
few
first
may
hardly accord
Who to
Johan
was content.
Jottan, the
Husbande;
wood's pieces.
coarseness
is
It is also
even then
is
offensive.
or perhaps
by reason of
relic
but
its
and
its
its
obscenity,
down
visits
INTRODUCTION.
xxxi
life.
The
derogatory
it
us
it
not
is
fail
sufficient to
own
clergy.
Of
The
last
The
been bestowed on
this
named
title
yet
is
respectively
The
The
To which
less grievous
than
by
his study is
fixt.
no way
argues,
is
In feeling what
in
body
makes
reply,
whose cause he
INTR OD UC TION.
xxxii
The
In feeling the
fruit
whip
of his workmanship.
Adding, with no
Less
is
little feeling,
is
the pain
incumbent on us to notice
Haywood,
He
we
greatly
err,
is,
That
it is
distinction,
Gammer Gurton
once accorded
in
1560, to the
may
safely be
transferred
Four
P's,
Heywood.
They had
existed, as
they
will
always
Thebes, in Baalbec,
those pities
if,
men took
more or
less
debased
INTRODUCTIO N.
comedy, that
no spoken
story,
to perform.
had
is,
by dramatist, or entered
ceived
ments
But as
or exalted.
xxxiii
New
man
Testa-
for generations
was demanded
But these
in a stage play.
Biblical
by an
way
People
in this
session,
of antiquity.
drama
selves to copy.
moral that
is
But when we
interval
we cannot be
surprised at the
wonder
at the
IN TROD UC TIO N.
xxxiv
elapsed
veloped into
The
Menmchmi
before the
of Plautus
had
de-
line of
We
prefer to place
it
at the point
for
rule,
we
first
time introduced.
shall
have no hesitation
in
Though
earliest dramatic
countries of Europe,
Heywood may
be said
still
to
origi-
in their extrac-
tion;
draw
vitality
so
Rome and
from
Athens.
its
spiritual
encumbrances, the
In
In France,
Germany
as yet
no drama had
Agamemnons.
Heywood, on the
contrary, looked
They accordingly
are
fields
and
most usually
of citizen
and
INTRODUCTION.
apprentice, of Cheapside
coatier,"
We
is
it
reception
madam
or
xxxv
Wapping
was accorded.
know not
how long
for
Haywood continued
to
first
"waist-
but
they
upon the
In 1633, exactly a
Ben Jonson,
we
in the last
Jonson
name
satirises
the scene
is
of
Heywood.
our author
The play
in
which
is
men
of Finsbury
new
piece which
Tub
as its
title.
Its author,
by whom
at
a disguise
Jones
Inigo
is
in Middlesex,
intended,
considers
it
accordingly directs
them
to inspect
The
squire
his washliouse,
'
adding
Spare us no
boards or hoops
have you ne'er a cooper
At London, call'd Vitruvius ? send for him
Or old John Heywood, call hinn to you to help.
To
cost, either in
INTRODUCTION.
xxxvi
we gave
connections
who would
him
of procuring
Two
hold.
in
his early
employment
name
persons of his
in the house-
station,
One
is
a William Hey-
name
is
constantly
some
perquisite of a
yeoman of
cords a
payment
to
"
the crown.
In a
permanent pension.
The one
is
"
King's
Harry
"
;
and
was
In
at
The
company
yeomen bit-makers
of "
position,
it
is
true,
"
he shared
and
in
" sergeant
INTRODUCTION.
he received while on
this expedition,
xxxvii
would seem
"
it
but
we
singing-man" at
Hey wood,
William
It re-
to
court was
no other than
engaged, as
we
find
him
this
to have
In the
first
Greenwich and
St. James'.
Henry
VIII., four
Two
a permanent footing
"
"
Children
"
namely, the
of the Chapel,
and
this latter
company
performances.
of performers
we
Attached to
find
John Hey-
when
tion of him.
salary.
He
first
makes men-
Five years
later,
he
is
receiving a quarterly
shillings,
that
amount ap-
pay-book now
in the
has chronicled
it.
chapter-house at Westminster
So small however
is
the stock of
INTRODUCTION.
John Heywood, that from a passing allusion
comedy, we are ready to
in a
he
it is
makes us
he had started as an
we
find a
amount of
his
regular salary.
On
of a like nature,
annum
to
discover the
is
the
painter," to
of ;^20 per
to
"
Vincent
the
sum
bestowed. Such
Voulp
we
others
It is
noticeable
to
half
The
by
Book of
the Chapel
of
of
More and
the confidence of
IN TROD UC TION.
patible with the
known
xxxix
view of
the singing-boy's
whole
promotion.
First,
directing the
but taking
seniority,
It is singular to
in
was
order of
of the chapel.
the
after
an evening
service.
To
were likewise
entitled,
whose sum
Chapel.
At
Heywood
entered
He
or,
voice
was
ment than
far
But
as a soprano
in this establish-
an outlet
INTRODUCTION.
xi
was found
by draughting them
off,
him
now Pembroke
It
College, Oxford.
is
biography of John
Heywood
for a
difficulty
it
is
probable
dren, at the
company
in the household.
But of
is
to his
emoluments
of performing chil-
long con-
more
particularly
'
age,
chappelle, the
of these children
nombere being
full,
INTRODUCTION.
year 1526, mention
made
is
paid by
fifty shillings,
way
xli
of a quarterly salary of
of retainer to secure
Hey-
Again
in 1537,
occurs
among
a payment to
Heywood
of two pounds
is
also found
Heywood's
in
Of these
children.
identical performances
come down
to us,
is
not
From
stage.
this
visitors
The
was not
occasion
Master of
known
to
Grammar.
John
in
The
play,
connection with
aimed at heaping
this piece
Lyly's Latin
the reformers.
entrepreneur on this
fame
from
Rouen
ridicule
When we
by
own
pupils,
faith of
his
False-Interpretation,
the
theological nature
of the
INTROD UC TION.
xlii
Such com-
as that
which Heywood
Salathiel
He
men
so duly,
He
played so
truly.
we
observe
Heywood
when our
as
six-
to occurred
The
we
are aware,
come
good people!" he
" I
begins,
INTRODUCTION.
"
own desyrouse
xliii
to
suit,
show
my
most
towards
me
demned
to
die
offences.
for
my
manifold
outrageous
and
" his
majesty's
by
open
my
eyes to see
it,
or
(if
mine
way
God
of
be
Rome
to
either to
it),
ears to hear
both
me
but
also, like
thought to be of the
same
opinion.
have known or
all
my
no true sub-
here most
and secondarily
axe the
all
the
world."!
' MS. Lambeth.
Bonner Register,
Monuments, v. 538.
fol. 6i.
INTRODUCTION.
xliv
Without any
Hey wood
at the
has
who occupied
fellows
was currently
the assertion,
authority for
direct
said,
Such an
man
and merry-andrews
one,
it
to take
It is
it.
whom
the
men
literary
So long ago
of
fair
standing.
in the exercise
held at Walworth
his bequest to
Not only
tatores
carried
by the
see of Canterbury,
came by
the jester of
Edmund
of their private
jester Berdic
lives.
is
At
I.
the
five carucates of
his pension
isting in Smithfield
is
I.
INTRODUCTION.
xly
is
among
marks was
"John Heywood,
granted to
the
servant"
King's
of two manors
in
Again
Farthing.i
Thomas
Queen
in
North-
granted to
the
manor
for his
When,
com-
in 1577,
been possessed
nominal
rental, of
his wife,
sion.
daughter Elizabeth.
They
lease
i)
their
he held a
which
was
forfeited
by
reason
Another authority
offences.
of
his
states that
'
State Papers.
Henry VIII.
State Papers.
Domestic. XIV.
iii.
186.
8.
political
he was pos-
INTRODUCTION.
xlvi
Mimms.
We
it
is
gift to
office that
this
for him.
it
certain that
is
He
also,
English Rizzio
the
is
may
it
be
without the
scandal.
Queen,
"We
what
is
thank you
the other
"That your
Grace,''
Another time,
}"
as
he replied,
it
is
"may
see me."
Conversations with
When
she was
in
INTRODUCTION.
xlvii
when the
at a time
At
dis^ace.
object of
her coronation,
was bestowed
flattery
was
it
friendless
Heywood
festivities,
should be
it
and
in
took a leading
and composed
Even
in her last
not
suffered
his
and
service
his
unrecognised
to pass
or unrewarded.
We
matist,
it
now remains
Heywood
for us to notice
as a dra-
him
as a poet.
dramas
is
among a
for
coterie of
bad
little
his
He
Heywood
has written
Of
found a place
we
poets,
will
in
his best
worst of Martial's,
single epic,
and nearly as
upon which
place
Of
among
that century
the
;
may
other
to peruse
it.
His
controversial
though probably no
Doran be an exception
indelicate.
its
has
since
writings
oneunless
of
Dr.
INTRODUCTION.
xlviii
end of the
toiling to the
last stanza,
convinced
Tom
is
is
the same
poem by
Not having
Hudson.
we
no opinion on
have read
it
we
shall not
we
will
But
which we
in the
still
can
way
of
in the face of
store
collected, are
English mind.
It
we have used
is
for us to
edition
from the
press.
sion as being
is
We
more
free
from corruptions
that of 1546,
edition,
first
it
in
is
own
title
though the
of Heywood's
later impres-
The
unwieldiness
for sup-
pressing
it
in this version,
changed
its
will
and the
original having
INTRODUCTION.
We
remarking that
&e
alludes to another
exactly as
title
latter portion
and
distinct
work
xlix.
we
find it;
of the title-p^e
:
The Workes of
John.
With
which
may
contemporary
literature.
He
may
give rise
to.
He
and
may be new
book.
to the
reflections as these
name
Hey-
last
INTRODUCTION.
lines,
upon a speech
he has lighted
The play
deductions.
revival
is
plainly
is
a coeval
of Decker,
as the master-piece
in
is
well
known
buffo-
Quaint
maxims have
since
this incident in
applications
sentences and
for
Decker's
comedy we
in
are strikingly
which Lord
"And
manteau
if
buy a
you
port-
to quote from."
Julian Sharman.
Kensington, March, 1874.
THE
MONG
tong,
Such
as
on
Some
Yet to
And
sense of
fine
and
fruitfull effect
a reach,
That almost
in all things
rude,
they allude,
This write
Men
both
profit
yong
I.
for
teach.
why
PRE FA CE.
But
this
and
this rest
pith
In this
tale, erst
as
we could
may
grow.
As many of them
To
is,
fitly
finde
fall in
minde
may
will alway.
THE FIRST
PART.
Chapter
F mine
I.
man
(Being a resorter to
Resorted
lately,
me now and
shewing himselfe to be
And
we
as
With
for this a
that
me
Whoso
Though
it,
The
full
Yet doth
this
Politikely, (as
man
In things to come
To
possibly can),
after,
than)
in,
THE PROVERBS OF
As
the provision
And
By
Two women
two
Is
profitable,
things,
am wrought
who
That
This
so
many
all
mayde hath
And
And
to live upon.
is
me
both would
The tone
Goods have
this
substance, but
my
I shall
I
all I
shall sure
have as
follow
The poore
am
they wooe,
dooe.
little all
them
to
gifts wil
bestow,
have no grote,
my
wedde
Now
her purse
selfe
That she
Except
are.
And
fond
On
yeares beares,
is
if I
have her
friends sweare,
elswhere.
me
be deerest,
neerest
.'
The depth
of
all
me
The
The
to
make
Chapter
FRIEND,
(quoth
good
I will
And two
out of hand.
II.
will,
as I can your
minde herein
fulfill.
The
I),
hither,
yong
it
appeares.
Have you
then, (quoth
And
this
I like
yong mayd.
tyme sayd
Well
then, (said
may
disclose,
I),
honestly
you, (as
sayd),
THE PROVERBS OF
Not
much
so
Which
is,
in
to
be
liked, as I
good or
ill
But of
Such
for this
wayd.
can deeme,
ill
life.
wife.
or bad.
as at
Where
in
All
firie
Some
Show
When
haste to wed,
soone rebateth.
men
wed
to
in haste,
after
Then such
'
ground
this
to
white
salt,
Nicholas.
come
stile
before you
fire
at
it
haste
of Abington, 1599.
For haste
makes
waste.
Hudibras.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
Before they
And
wed
assist,
I wist.-
And
up,
And when
Good
'
men
to beware of had
to
controlde,
be merie
little
neere.
is
mated
weele.
feele.
A common
Moon
Wat Moon,
An
in the
lies
Who
Be
"
Here
welle
Had
is
a thyng
it
phrase
is
found
in youre thought
servys of nought.
Hot love
soone colde.
'
Good to
be merie
Touchstone.
Did
and wise.
gaine
my
wealth by ordinaries
no
by
THE PROVERBS OF
Haste
in
own
his
When
And when
Then
And
he
is
seeth he haste
that in
i'od,^
far
od
all,
Most times he
owne
availe,
taile.
seeth, the
more haste
So that
the hastie
man
As ye
Then
ye take so profound.
told
to
owne
fast
Roman du
The hastie
by Chapman,
rod.
don
Con
1605,
man
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
Yet
all
the whole
all
cumme.
summe
in time to
but
am
way
at bay.
Which hast me
'
fit,
By
THE PROVERBS OF
Chapter
III.
Now may
And
And
if
I choose,
and which
we determine me
beautifull
manage
And
Now
if
And
Then
we award me
to take,
me
to forsake,
lieth in the
wed
widow
the
dike
like.
to wed.
till
He
In
obtaine.
never shall
That she
this
list
mayde
this
Then my
And
And
me
in
my faulte
it
grieve
me more
&-c.
The fat
is
in the fire.
fatt's in
keele
What You
all
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
From
this
purpose
th'
iron
pike
is hot,
strikeP
The
sure
And
'
Seaman
When
th'
iron
man^^
is hot, strike.
his
nun
is
hot.
may
fall
il
le fault battre.
Rabelais,
" The
tide tarieth
1607.
ii.
31.
no man.
Hoist up
saile
last.
THE PROVERBS OF
12
Delayes
And
in
full
account
spill.
who somthe
Time
is tickle ;
while
I vi\3.Y,fast
^^
bindefastfinde.^
all his
lockes before,
his forehead
When
Quoth Hendyng.
Proverbs of Hendyng, ms. circa 1320.
" Fast binde fast finde.
Shy lock.
Well, Jessica, go in
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Blame mee not
And
Him
I
and
while
There
my
flitte fro
out,
long time
bee blerde.
berde.
may
bring
lost in
I will
While I
wurdes,
return immediately
many vaine
men and
''
myne eye
hopping without
And
in
13
in thrifty
is best,
Sr'c.
It is this
Betweene two
stooles, &'c.
THE PROVERBS OF
14
By
this, since
we
must breed a
see slouth
scab.
Thus
all
plaine
Whereby
Which
That
so
many heads
shew, as surely in
in
no
But to shew,
my wedding
so
many
And
by hast
too soone
all tell.
even as well
As come
plast.
fits.
wits}^
that they
all
may
and promptly
further
in
any
late.
rate
nule ne acheive
Savey hi Ten dessert
;
sei
meismes greves.
liv.
i.
c.
ii.
So many heads
so
many
wits.
Quot homines
tot sententise.
Terenck
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Be
it
far or nie,
wedding
is destiny,
15
I.
whole,
To hast or to hang
Ye deale this dole,
For destiny
aloofe,
happy
(quoth
I),
man
happy dole}^
in this case
But
will, fore
to
provision to
worke or
direct
neglect.
Somewhat
The
proverbes which
before
them did
An earlier mention
lay,
likewise.
Mam.
Leo.
No,
You
my
will
Happy man be
.''
lord,
I'll
fight.
why, happy
man
be his dole
Winter's Tale, i.
!
2.
Grim
THE PROVERBS OF
i6
The
Til
trial
we
thereof
we
all
water,^^
trye more.
Declare
will lay
Chapter
WILL,
(quoth
streight
What
With
where
this
Whom
That
my
IV.
in
both these
case;
show
will
And
he),
rise.
me by them
grow.
eie,
I right
live
by love
Which sheweth
all
maladies quight
either Apollo
laiije
a water.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
17
And then
One
No
me
shew'th
openly, in love
is
no lack ;
Nay
Well as to
What
I),
time
may
harke
breed
its
chieving.
one thing,
this
And
God send'th
She,
this further
better^"
and
amending,
and
This change
is
for
this I pike,
'"
get,
sparke,
a legge of a larke
better.
is, from
Seldome
Like wilt to
like.
like to like,
ye ken
it's
God send'th
o'
his ingleside.
Heart of Midlothian.
is
Henry Estienne.
THE PROVERBS OF
i8
bodie of a kight ;
Is better than
is the
And home
homely, though
is
These proverbs
And
my bow
is
kill feare
And
'
sight.
flourish,
may
fall
all
will
if
in
Gods
a willing hart.
hart herein to consent
ds^c.
moone?
may winne my
legge of a larke,
fall shall,
fall all
hopeth
when theskiefalthweshallhaveLarkcs?
Nothing is impossible
And
shew such a
Feare
Who
be poore in
That much
And
it
my
sister
I.
kite."
JONSON,
1605.
When
Si les nues
But oh,
And
cast
A Woman
19
of this
widow
Chapter
"his Widow being
rich
and olde
hand have
.'
told.
V.
foule
and of favour
ill.
skill
Of
felt
plate
And
soft lodging,
Than covetyse
shift
iinplementes of
may win
drest
thrift.
coffers.
these proffers.
THE PROVERBS OF
20
And
man
Who
hath
Of two
ils
is
an
as
ill,
mo
in the pot
ill
as
me ^
let the
this
lot.
To
the
Since lacke
To
widow
it
selfe save;
to winne,
Inne?
"
ils
^^
Of harmes two
the lesse
is for
to cheese.
i. e.,
Cressida.
is
generally applied by
From
rusty bacon,
And from
and
ill
rested eeles.
Witfs Recreations,
'
An
morality,
in Shakespeare's
we came
paucas pallabris
Mine
ease in
'"
let
in with
Richard Conqueror.
Look
myne
Shall
my
He must
in the
Therefore,
Inne.
Falstaff.
have
a baggage
Sly. Y'are
chronicles,
'
1634.
shall
needes
swim
that
is
565.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
21
this
substance sure
Then
And
round about
^' all
It is sayd,
Doe you
be
it
after
Thus be
better be
him
by
this,
it
by the
rout.
wurse,
once
le
senior de graunde.
That
erst sate
and
sit
on
their skurtes,
Frendes
And
"
to
He laugth
The
that -winth.
is
the
more common.
talk.
it is
coffers.
Nash's Pierce
1622.
no matter what
we have
vfhilst
sic
the
Penilesse, 1592.
rost.
circa 1518.
THE PROVERBS OF
22
Reason laboreth
To
will, to
win
wil's consent,
The
by darke
W^en
eie sore,^*
And
this
who say
desire,
Where
giftes
be given
freely. East,
West, North or
South,
is
most
my
availe.
Shee flourisheth
What
Her substance
^*
in
coote ?
shoote.
An eie sore.
Quod the Barbour, but a lytell eye sore.
Mery Jests of the Wyddow Edyth,
"
de
No man
ought
to looke
1525.
gyven hors
may
will
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Take a payne
for
a pleasure
all
wise
23
men can
And here I
By this old
all
me may
Chapter
|E have, (quoth
I),
that
? "'
know.
grow.
VI.
in these conclusions
found
And
both
these
long
cases,
being well
viewde.
Which
With
is,
we may
riches,
doth
It
But
th'
well inclewde
answere
and
is
move.
neerly couched.
be touched
that
it
before
'"
it
Hungry
dogges,
dr'C.
There
is
man
THE PROVERBS OF
24
And
For
your
selfe,
to length
reasons that
all
Than
And
to seeke reasons
mine
to the counsell of
to be playne, as I
I perfectly feele
it,
my
for reason,
halfpeny^'^
yee so
stifly lay.
To
frend,
But reason
By
my
my fingers end ;
to contend.
to condiscend.
must with
even at
how
shall herein
With reason
assisted
Which myself
by
I will
prove you
experience.
And
in the
liker, it
And
at
^ Trade,
i.e.
a way, a means.
Long did
Long was
'"
my
travel,
long
my
Ri.
Half.
see.
Thou
liest,
is
my hand
on
my
half-peny.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
How
Ye may,
now yee
(quoth he),
Practise in
all,
above
all
25
may
answered
bee.
;^9
ye bring practise
For
Ye know
well
my tong must
it is,
But
good
for
I),
mickell,
brydale.-"
your bridale,
for this
That
But
as
owne
at his
Or els
is
oft tickell.
without fabling,
will banish
And
in place,
were
there.
meane not
in
it.
in these
it
can geve,
For advyse
" Pricke,
any
signify
i.e.
we now read
Brydale, a wedding
There were
ales,
particular spot
printed where
^
in. both
festivity.
leet-ales,
several more.
" point."
Brand's Popular
Antiquities.
THE PROVERBS OF
26
VII.
far
Where
of ours,
Chapter
WITHIN
to talk
walke.
let it
way.
I
and
my wife
hold lay
were abyding,
whom
to discrive.
As
in that feat I
Never could
More
And
lively
am
paynt
full.
shew one
similitude.
be viewd.
in all things to
The
frendes of
Standing
them
mayde ye
of
tell.
you
three.
taried.
yOJhN HEYWOOD.
Into two houses, which next
The one on
my
tone,
27
I could
left
hand.
tother.
me
Whereby betweene
to
it
were.
mine
eare.
Both
for wealth
And
and woe,
it
is
knew
much
all their
four
lives.
intricate,
side, I shall
here separate
Th' one
'
side,
His make,
while
i. e.
th'
other be
full
reherst in rate,
his wife.
As
well your
as your quiristers.
keep to their warm feather-beds.
If they be sped of loves ; this is no season
Had need
To
seek
la'icks,
to
new makes
in.
Ben Jonson,
Tale of a Tub,
i.
i.
THE PROVERBS OF
28
As
for
And
this
Who,
may
your understanding
best stand
shall
come
first in
hand.
after a while,
As
So
mery as
Abyde, (quoth
I), it
he),
three chippes.
when
all is
doone.
braunch of
cote ;
any
But
ere this
The
roote.
this
wench.
Their faces tolde toies that Totnam was turnd French?
And
*
all their
The blacke
and translated
oxe, &f.
fall
foot.
A phrase implying
a great alteration.
It
takes
its
origin from
the migration of a
And
to
my house
Which
Praying
to heare
hand
sleeveless errand,^
till
him
to breake,
he began to speake,
and
sayd, I would.
he
tould.
Amated, dismayed.
That
To
Taylor's
*
in
minde herein
his
me
Wherewith
all
To make
29
The
Amsterdam.
Mad Fashions,
1642.
sleeveless errajid.
origin of the
word
has defied the most careful philological research. I would suggest that the phrase originated in the mediaeval custom of favoured
knights wearing the sleeve of their mistress as a mark of
favour ; such aspirants as failed to obtain the badge being dubbed
as sleeveless. Spenser virrites " Sir Launcelot wore th? sieive of
the faire maide of Astelothin a tourney, whereat queene Guenever
was much displeased." The word sleeveless is frequently found
aUied to other substantives. Bishop Hall speaks of the "sleeveless
tale of transubstantiation," and Milton writes of a " sleeveless
reason."
Chaucer uses
centuries afterwards
its
it."
THE PROVERBS OF
30
Chapter
AM
now
VIII.
my
hart,
To
And
Whose
But
fathers
my wife
and mee.
we had wedded,
each,
we
did see
One peny
And
suite
to the one
on
wedding of us twaine.
Where any
of
them
may
them we get
live,
of
give ought,
right nought.
So
far that
Whereby
no
til
we be
for lacke
in det,
will us lend,
we both be
get.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
But wit
never good
is
be bought^
till it
This payeth
me hom6
loe
For had
I lookt afore
Though
hast had
As
is
Yet
31
to
drowne
and
made me
this
ful
moe
drought
this
my bride
must
drinke of
Till
now and
WJw wedth
cup
needes thinke.
I needes drinke?
The
I see
folly hits,
tast beforne.
am
alive,
it,
it.
Wit
is
never good,
Sir'c.
if
men
Clinches,
saying, that
taught.
Conceits,
'
tion
connec-
result.
1623.
THE PROVERBS OF
32
Some
Moe
I
reckened
my wedding
But reckeners
And
it
bed.
'"
although
were sweet
must recken
for a
weeke
must
iwice?^
or twaine,
see
now
plaine.
take,
Good cheape.
Cheap :r market
'
He
it
sels
Who
Furthermore
money
it
shall
Webster.
bed.
be lawful
for
bed
%X-A\xX.^.Pen7iilesse
Rabelais, Gargantua.
eie
How
be
And
herein to
For
it,
did
who
it
out
theti
ventred on
so bold as blinde
my
selfe
and
the faire,
For
though
ake.
this,
Bayard
isf^-
alway
33
for
commeth
it
be a
this
I rave,
have}^
remorse
good horse
To
And
before this
my first
foile
"
my
cote after
Who
my
cloth i''
so bold as blinde
first trip
or breakneck
when
I, I
or touch
fall,
shall
have her.
Bayard is ?
applied where persons act without consideration or reflection. Its antiquity is apparent from its occun^ing in
The Vision of Piers the Ploughman, 1362, and in Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales. The word " bayard" originally meant a grey
This proverb
is
" Selfe
Yea, said shea, selfe do, selfe have many a man thinketh to
doe another man a shrewd turne and it turneth oftimes to his
owne selfe. Mery Tales ofthe Mad Men of Gotham, circa 1450.
:
''
Cut m.y
relic
cote after
my
Three
cloth.
34
THE PROVERBS OF
smell,
am
How
My carefull
And
I in
an other
the purse
is
threed-bare.
To
you
tell,
Chapter
AM sory (quoth
And more
If
I),
IX.
of your poverty
sory, that I
myne almes
to
stur,
come
to
at a
may my
best
hee),
way bee
yOHN HEYWOOD.
How to
I
am
like th'
ill
surgeon, (sayd
Of good playsters.
Yee shall have the
35
I),
without store
But
first
are,
declare
rich kinsfolkes
do
dwell.
us,
well,
Tlie neer to the church, the further from
God}^
And
As
Ye
What
An
I
I),
who
tak'th in hand,
am
'*
taber^"^
The neer
Qui
verbes
to the church,
est prfes
de
Communs,
some
fling or flitte
to sit.
folke in lacke
Sir'c.
I'dglise est
Les Pro-
circa 1500.
taber.
One day
tabers.
Good Felowship,
1591.
THE PROVERBS OF
36
Cannot prease
backe
And shame
a broken
holdeth
sleeve
tJi
arme
;'^^
holdeth
And shame
me
I),
shame
is
as
it is taken.
none.
Unminded, unmoned
Till meate fall in
Or
sit still
your mouth ;
will
.'
May fortune
to fast
yee lye
till
in bed,
honger.
if I shall
to the stake,
I will
me
make
up
sayle,
And
And home againe hitherward quicke as a Bee ;
Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. '9
thitherward hie
"
Parlanunt of Byrdes,
1550.
'
off,
Fortune.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
37
I),
to him,
can not
One
ill
tell that,
(quoth he),
woord axeth
Well, (quoth
I),
ones
oft as
to contrary.
by
saint
Mary
better is to
bow
then breake
;-
is
Better
is to
bow then
if
breake.
Gertrude.
THE PROVERBS OF
38
Best
to suffer
is
for
So
And
will I doo.
Yet whether
He
and
me
sent her to
Whereto
all
goe streight as he
Hkewise,
if
gone,
mother's
sister,
is
my
Namely, an aunt,
(Since
no,
who
well,
up from the
my
shell
wedding
growne
Upon
And
her fansie, as
in
hkewise
father to me.
And
if
it
myne
Well, (quoth
your husbande
I),
let
pas
was
For he ere
this
thought
way to be
Without
With
And
^
aid.
this
I
to dinner to
Of suffrance comth
He
them on
to her husband,
th'
other hand.
ease.
give a piroverbe
Will, 1607.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Chapter
;HEN
39
X.
tryde,
Home came
she
first
welcome, (quoth
and well
I),
hyde.
But
the
And
is
my
all
may
see.
husband and
Myne
Both bad
me good
me
me
too,
At
by which
me
welcome.
appeareth.
it
None
'
Alberto.
hood
puritie
'tis
common
fashion.
THE PROVERBS OF
She speaketh
And
as shee
of sctwole, that
is
no moe such
To Iwld with
Fyre
pickthanke*
To your most
To
will the
the
in the tone
blab
it
titifyls in
hare and
ru7i
sell.
her great
is
wist
it tell
and
lust.
out
it
must?
Englandes ground,
in the tether,
Pickthanke
tries to
ca7idlestick''
is
In Henry IV.,
thanks and base news mongers."
trivial services.
'
Blab
it
it
Pt.
i.
iii.
2,
by performing
"smiling pick-
must.
MS.
"
"
Have an
Somewhat
Long have
'
ore
i7t
earlier,
I
called.
The meaning
of
JOHN HEYWOOD.
41
She
is lost
Her toung
But
As
is
little titte
all tayle ; I
it
will
cut.
this,
is.
Hee
Shee
is,
an
for
any
by the
ele
availe,
tayle.
Shee
is
Shee
is
a ringleader there.
And
fearing
Ferdinando
Nor woman
Wonne
'
As high
vrith
true,
shell.
on loaves of bread,
These loaves became jocularly
to feed horses
a standard of measurement.
Her stature scant three horse loaves did exceed.
Harring-
ton's Ariosto.
'
Overthwart.
THE PROVERBS OF
42
She would
To
I
spit
set
Praying her,
devill}''-
way
in
my
her eare, on
in
But other
Not very
ere
fat fed,
to
Why
sayd
An
Prince Henry.
Falstaff.
ye came
is
John
why an
;'*
otter
;
have her.
Damned
To
set
Dryden, Epilogue
this night
leave is light.
otter, sir
she
would.
voice.
in,
this flebergebet
Pilafs
choice.
But ye be
syde to houlde
huswife,
Guise
of a charme,
where
not evil
To do
Yee
it
up a candle
flesh
to the
Duke of
way of steering,
may
1604.
'
Flebergebet.
were four
tteede
43
jet.
She comth, neece Ales, (quoth she), for that is her name,
More
for
neede than
live by love
for
this Ales,
They must
in all hast
Might buye
all
not, but
though a
wed
leafe of
borage
of corage
sell.
Not
so
Nay
good
sure so
She must needes graunt she hath wrought her own woe.
in a milstone^^
GowER,
'
Seenefar in a
Another
may be
Confessio Amaniis.
milstone.
women you
THE PROVERBS OF
44
When
As they by wedding
But
lose
Good
My
I
aunt, (quoth
I),
humbly
beseech yee,
you forgive
it
me.
my
handes,
can not
call
agayne.
Be they done
in
But
Too
late,
myne
(quoth
late or too
repent
soone
this.
shewd
is;
When
I
tlie
Again
in
the7i
burre.
never.
Quant
fol
M^s
si
ore le avei
fols I'estable.
The
The
steede
Gates
vi^as
stollen before
consumed before
1300.
45
me now
Than
/ see day at
off
me
to doe
my
clothes from
way
A well,
my
backe,
For
this
bood
In good
faith,'I
sayd,
(quoth she),
The walking
her lacke,
In
in
staffe
now
I well
understand,
And
will
be lyme-fingred,
It is as tender as
feare
by my
faye.
a Parsons lemman ;
Nought can shee dooe, and what can shee have than
As
But shee
And
will
come
I proud, and
about,
thou proud,
who
rout,
must breath.
Might bostyou
And
to be better solde
than bought.
ment, 1575.
THE PROVERBS OF
46
Her gowne
At
is
How
may
repine.
it
as
There
is
manner
of
mocking
laughter,
She
lookth as butter
Well, the
still
sow
Pryde goeth
eats
up
in her mouth.-^
before, S^c.
1510,
The
still
sow
eats
is
up
human
food.
'Tis old but true, stil swine eat all the draff.
Meny
Wives of Windsor,
iv. 2.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
All
is
by
told tales.
But soone
How
be
soone rotten
ripe,
it,
lo
God sendth
in this
;^
47
yong
evill
three,
till
liberty
thornes,
was borow.
were
pitty,
is
the bell?
Uns
Que
proverbes
raconte
dit et
Roister Doister,
566.
'
Soone
Common
Cursitors, 1567.
'
circa 1490.
and cleanse a good part of the kingdom. But most commonly God sendeth a shrewd cow short horns, or else many a
thousand in England had smarted. FOXE, Acts and Monuments.
to visit
bell.
Here
The
lyes the
bell, in
man whose
for,
THE PROVERBS OF
48
Illweedegrowtkfasi,'' A\qs
It is
may,
If I
Of troth
Her
she
hart
they
(as
is
is
when her
skinne.
eie is ful
sleeves.
without sinne.
a wolfe in a lambes
ful hie,
low
show
evill caulfe.
My
sister,
Was
(God
whom though
Aunt, (quoth
Myne
I), I
When we would,
all
other.
'
I bost,
III
will
not wee.
Good Lord
have grown Is he not Alexander ?
Alex. Yes, truly, he's shot up finely, God be thanked
Mercury. An ill weed, mother, will do so.
Alex. You say true, sir, an ill weed grows apace
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb.
Mother.
How you
MS.
49
Thou
Aunt, (quoth
I),
owne
after a doting or
drunken deede.
Hee
Whom
in itching
when he
is
sober.
lie is
no scratching
And
he
will forbeare,
yet neere
kirtell,
Yea
set
it is
smocke?
must looke
your own
first
up
Though nye
Beside, there
be
is
my kirtell,
be, that
ye
may
grant
to.
a deere collup 9
owne flesh.
my
For
whome
is
blood.
&^c.
man commonly
loveth his
owne
profit
Collup.
God knows
flesh.
Henry
VI. v. 5.
THE PROVERBS OF
io
And cosin,
Nay, (quoth
be the winners
I),
all loosers,
With thanks
Where nothing
is,
choosers.
">
shal take
little
And by
this
Hold
fast
is better
whan ye have
it,
then nothing.
(quoth she)
consume that
Thou
Kyt
'"
art
Calot^^
my
by
my
lyfe;
have labored
saw
cosin,
the
fore.
this
Loveless.
Savil.
What
dost thou
My eldest boy
He was
is
mean
to
That
is
take
it,
in his function,
%
%
;
Scornful Lady,
v. 3.
Kit Callot and Giles Hather are said to have been the
first
"
Kyt
Calot.
JOHN HE V WO OD.
And
myne
in
let
They
And
to
make
this
matter whole,
shall for
She and
51
by God's
she),
Farewell
blist.
unkist,.
She flang
me, and
fro
the woorth
of a beane,-
Forsooth, (quoth
I),
ye have bestird
y-e
well
all this
lyke a hogge
And
it is evill
The
bitch
she), routing
waking of a
fray
fell I
;
sleeping dogge.
too,
And
at
well,
in
waking to
(quoth she).
me would doa
I will
my husbandes handes
for better
newes weight.
Hence
English persons who took up the occupation of gipsies.
It is varicmsly
the use of the word ' calot' as a term of abuse.
spelt and is used generally to denote a scold or infamous woman.
Gogs bread ! and thinkes the callet thus to keep the neele me
fro.
"^
Gammer
Court,
by John Skelton,
circa 1520.
THE PROVERBS OF
52
Chapter XI.
\
doone
Upon
how have ye
Toward myne
I
I),
uncle's,
his.
Thither
At
I
sight of
me he
asked,
How be
He
it,
lo,
seldom
to Chester.
who have we
if I
kin,
wist
there
where
Malt
But
is
for as
much
as I
men
myne
aunt.
say.
that
I forbare,
I
came
and not to
to fall in
S3
fall out,
oft to
hew,
As
For
this is true,
It is
It is
wood
Now
woord
at a
mery as a
cricket,
And
Christ wot.
Angry as a
But he was
at
Every
home
there,
I shall
he might speake
his will,
owne dunghiliy^
I can.
Hop
on the
us.
thowibe.
"
are
Taming
Shrew.
Now were I not a little pot, and soon hot, my very lips might
for, considering the weather, a taller
my very teeth,
freeze to
man
than
I will
take cold.
iv. i.
fleshs is her et
hit is cwointe
THE PROVERBS OF
54
Roming
in
But Sonne,
and
out, I
Lyke a pickpurse
At
I
know
wis I
how ye
tell
tosse,
That
any more be
ere
tolde.
Uncle, (quoth
I
here
I),
"^
flote yet
niosse.
tripos, is
by John Marston.
Pierre volage ne queult mousse.
pour
le
" To
andpay
lui,
13th century.
Poule.
reign of
the proverb, " ddcouvrir saint Pierre pour couvrir saint Paul"
gives additional colouring to the statement.
" Draffe
is your
Again
in
JOHN HEYWOOD.
I
know
beg of
fo
me
thy comming.
is
And
Yee would
55
it is
if
so indeede
him
in
some
stay.
And
Hee might this day have bene cleere out of the case,
But now hee hath wellfisht and caught afrogge; *9
Where nought
Where
is to
(quoth
I,
That repent
I),
I oft,
Sonne, (quoth
oft
wish
had.
he), as I
So again
writes
the clog?'^
Latimer
in his
Remaines :
olders,
Again
The
in Winter's Tale,
prince himself
Stealing
is
iv.
THE PROVERBS OF
56
for
lyke, (as
Whan
wild thee
when yee
lost, to
By two myles
It
is
'
good
to
kist,
well I will
no more
list,
kist.
sturre
The
is
probably that
in
''
Moe maydes
but Malkin.
many parts
of
England
is still
the
name
slattern,
and
for a scarecrow.
The
Her
richest
'
It is good to
ii,
1.
57
in
Shall in time
to
And how
How
is
and pleasure
will follow
my saying come
oft did I
thee.
to passe
now ?
Nycebecetur,
should turne to soure salt petur
in seeing that
half.
selfe
To your manor
*
daw,
i. e.,
of pickt hatch go
foolish fellow.
Good
faith, I
am no
An
circa 1510
Henry
word
is
VJ.
ii.
4.
found in
THE PROVERBS OF
58
me
Did no good
Approved
in al
this
my wordes
a daw, so that
the water.
may
will.
ill,
ill
past no force.
hang
still
uncut downe on
/ have hangd up my
hatchet,
Monday
for
well.
And
me.
tell.
also
^Ofa
ragf;ed
colt, &-c.
severitie
Hoe, 1605.
"
Thurio.
How
now,
it
may
not goe.
Two
Gentlemen of Verona,
iv. 2.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
How can
and mare
By
59
trot?
lot,
My sister in
Thou
law,
They
little
time.
Then went
(witlesse) to
wedding.
Whereby
And even
a begging.
heed, friend,
Ye shall
find
This doe
And more
at last
Nor
line.
Each on
Take
brother.
will not
lost,
I say,
but
hold thee
nie.
cost.
tolde thee
now
nor such
follie feele,
set at
Nay good
'
.?
in the
THE PROVERBS OF
6o
To
is cast
away
flee charge,
and finde
ease,
Long bent
Fare
mens
cost
and feede
well,
But you
bent,
lust not to
full,
that love
I will
breake.
ye well to doo,
And
heete.
will give
none
life,
To cry Me.
One of the Hundred Mery
The
cat
is entitled
herfeete.
Letting,
"
Of
would.
He
JOHN HEYWOOD.
6i
is
That thou
But
Will
And
is
though
wilfull
shrewd
will
is
will
woe
win.
a shrewd boy
stake.
He
To
kill all
He will
Thynn,
1570.
is hard to wive and thrive both in ayeare.
Primus Pastor. It is sayde full ryfe,
" It
circa 1420.
"
sion of England.
THE PROVERBS OF
62
He
He
would faine
come.
Sir,
flee,
mend
may
overthrow.
But
for
my
reward, let
helpe him
sir,
by
Jong Long
Yee may
sir,
(quoth he),
the'caricr.
mend three
neede no broker^^
men say,
(sayd hee).
Some
will say,
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Some say
But
the
also, it is
moe knaves,
63
shall
be his relevavith,
Either after
Or during
With
And
gold,
fast
he
may
on good Fryday
his part
Now here
And
so,
eate.
is
and then
me what
tell
is
this,
sonne.
thou hast
the
way
won?
Thus parted
Madam,
'*
It is
No more
But mery
Valentin,
ii.
2.
meete.
now I wryte,
when knaves done mete.
of Cocke
it is
telst
this is a prettie
me
of?
meeting here
meete,
by SAMUEL Rowlands,
1602.
THE PROVERBS OF
64
Which
man
his
What man,
After cloudes
What
blacke,
cleere.
Let
wind overblow
this
all this
a tyme
I will
What man
For one
spye,
I),
And
this bost
For while
oste.
hand than
ten in the
wood?^
Rome was not built in one day (quoth he),^^ and yet stood
" While the grasse groweth,
Sr'c.
oft sterves
'^
1578.
An
old proverbe
"
Rome was
1530.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Till it
was
finisht, as
Your heart
some
65
dispayre.
many
Yee have
Though
I,
nay.
Can no way
Though nought
all by one
will
to rove at hand.
be wobn here,
I say,
may
get
Primus
is in your hose.
may
let
se as ye yelp.
I have help.
Secundus Pastor. A, thy hert is in thy hose.
Towneley Mysteries, circa 1430.
Tercius Pastor.
to your bowe.
am
THE PROVERBS OF
66
For come
Evermore
light gaynes
Children learne
By
little
and
make
heavie purses.
can learne
little
to
goe ;
so.
better is halfe
m^y begge my
than no bread.
lofe
bread, (quoth
Well
I),
for
my kin
all
fall,
Yee may
to
whom
As free
He
ofgift as a poore
pride
I), is
man
and so
That
of his
eye.
streight laste,
all repaste.
Absence sayth
Men
How
plainely,
know, (quoth
Further
it is
said,
must needs be
It
Men
'
have heard
I), I
say
who
is.
then,
also, children
now and
man
sayeth.
lye.
Master Constable says " You know neighbours 'tis an old 5aw,
Children and fooles speake ti-ue." Lyly's Endimion, 1591.
:
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
And
both
man and
childe sayth, he
Even as well as
the begger
is
67
a hensby.
By
He may
man
it is lost that is
is,
(quoth
Are
little,
As well as the
unsought.
I),
As
Bishop Pilkington,
'
1561.
sir,
this
THE PROVERBS OF
68
I
I
have
for
shall
And
For
hang
I will
I will first
Pompey.
checke.
Weapons.
Some
*
good
for ladies,
" set
is
described as
He
that
this, to disarrange, to
me
and that
All
And
'
Hang the
by,
in hy,
by Mahowne in heven,
set alle on sex and seven.
Towneley Mysteries, circa
uneven.
everything is left at six and seven.
Richa7-d II.,
bell
1420.
is
ii.
Which
Mouse unto
the rest,
dare be so stout
To hang the bell cats neck about ?
If here be any, let him speake.
Then all replide,
are too weake
of us
all
We
2.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
for to
win
69
this pray,
As
As
I),
as
much almes
cast
it is
to helpe
Then goe
a dogge over a
we
or neede,
stile.
And
God
within, but
streight as she
Pattring
tlte
never
thither.
tode,
made
for
me
smeld her
out,
kinde.
Of any
Hunger
of their good
goodnes, such
is
net?
nor beginning
wretched winning.
are rych,
THE PROVERBS OF
^o
is
With shops
Or who
full
will doe
And namely
of
of her
is
She
one of them
will
and
will right
life
They that
She
'
is
doe most ?
boste.
nought forgoe.
nayles.
for avayles.
she would
make change, be
And
may
That fof no
But
life
Which
her
to
all
lesse,
She
She
new shooes
be in hell
weene there
sure.
is
none
is ill
otlter heaven.
favourd
Who
is
to
beyond
restraint.
all
hoe.
scald horse
He
is
squyre.
He winkth
He
at
To match
I will
is
71
Is to give taunts
my
tother.
brother.
is
spitefull spite.
the cast,
We had
But
for
my mates
t/ie greatest
all
the greatnes.
Anon he came
'
in.
Hackney men at
And when
he us saw.
understood to
mean proprietors
of horses lent for hire ; " a hackney " being the name for a saddleIt was not until the reign of Charles I. that the title was
horse.
transferred to the drivers of vehicles, the year 1625 being the
date of the first appearance of hackney coaches in the streets of
London.
They were then only twenty in number, but the innowe find reflected in the pages
have furnished
and
service-
able horses for any journey, (by the multitude of coaches) are un-
THE PROVERBS OF
72
By my
And
Ye
faith
for
my
would, by
But
am
my
laxative
For he
And
is
purse, give
me a
in
some
speculation, yet
little,
rise
condition,
restorative.
Shall
I see
purgation
To have
my watter
To
in
consume
my
it
him
be
alive.
my
lot
practise not.
and doe
lesse,
selfe to restore
to his
him now
gesse,
."
Sow) /'"
done by the dozens, and the whole commonwealth most abominably jaded, that in many places a man had as good to ride on a
wooden post, as to poast it upon one of those hunger-starVd
hirelings. Taylor's Works, 1630.
'
The
to his
Sow).
73
either
Ka
mee, ka thee
put
me
To win me
I
tone,
tother.
nest to seeke
me
in these
out yles
than
have been
When
Where thou
No more
bite or sup
;^'^
To
make me
have wonne of
common Jacke
^^
all
But evermore
the
common
horse
worse shod.
is
m.y
winning
Ka
for
in m.ine eye,
ought
wan them
by.
mee, ka thee.
"
Common
Jacke.
Jack is a familiar appellation for anything rather disparagIn the Taming of the Shrew, Katharine calls
ingly spoken of.
her music-master " a twangling jacke," and in Richard HI. we
have " silken, sly insinuating jacks."
" I might put tny winning in mine eye, Sr'c.
is found Latinized in a letter of Erasmus,
This expression
THE PROVERBS OF
74
And now
Where
It is
without them,
I live
will I lend.
in thine
armes
Thou hast
I
thine.
With somewhat
I),
till I
pitie
me
a poore man,
may worke
as I can.
he),
ye make such
tastings,
to
of the bastings.
nine
men heldyee ;
Then
shall
we
see two
men
beare a fether
As
who
life loose.
Cardinal, of
a goose
stole
He is speaking of want
whom he says .
tell.
of generosity in a certain
Ye
Till
How be
it
when
You played
the
thrift
So helpe me God,
A
75
my
in
thrift
at a fray.
run away.
poore opinion,
And
sinse
Yet pray
"
I for
As rich
God and
you,
saint
Luke save
you.
as a
And
coryar
As ryche
as a
new shorne
shepe.
of this passage is that a dramatist who represented such a character on the stage, would fill the house
without a free list, making even his own friends pay.
The meaning
price of admission
Tut, give
Let
me
me
me
the penny
Ben Jonson,
Case
is
Alter'd.
THE PROVERBS OF
76
And
I
here
is all.
I further
And
it is,
as
have learned
in listening,
A poore dog,
that is
A day ere
was wed,
Scarborough warning
had (quoth
wade ?
kept
me
he),
I).
whereby
So
shall
Which
ye cost
is,
me
me
bost me,
me
me.
likewise
Ye
as ye cost
as ye yeeld
make up my mouth,
Her time
cast in
my teeth
And when
oysters.
to take up, to
tale avouth,
shew
my fare
she seeth
at best
Fare ye
And
well,
well
(quoth
mote ye
I),
how
fare both,
when
friend, (quoth I to
my mate),
booke,
JOHN HEYWOOD.
77
By
He
He
But
that Cometh
I
gat not so
much
in
win th^re
comming
seeld when,
well,
men say.
folke
tell.
(quoth
he),
That if the
There is no harme done, man,
Neither pot broken, nor water
As
'
I), I
spilt.
soone be
will as
hilt.
By hooke or crooke.
The phrase
its
origin
520
for to be.
THE PROVERBS OF
73
But
is
To disdaine
As he doth,
'Sa.e.
fometh
For she
is
who much
me,
it
like
bore,
accordeth not?"
my part,
Some loose
From some
graffe
tongue
take
I),
we
may
we
his
at will,
still.
Death, (quoth
Then
it
accordeth not.
MS. poem
accordith nought.
by Lydg'ATE, " On Inconstancy"
it
is
You
you
lion of Cotsolde.
of the
a Cotswold sheep.
" Shefrieth in her owne grease.
79
he),
and
let
us be trudging,
And
And
fed
me
a bed were
Earely we
And
pray thee
as full as a tunne ;
we
let
away,
morning by day.
What how
me and my
fellow,
thou knave,
fellow have
And
bitten were
Who
we both
barefoote.
and keepe
your winde to coole your pottage. Well, well, you are my
maister's sonne, and you looke for his lande ; but they that
hope for dead mens shoes may hap go barefoote. Two angry
Women of Abington, 1599.
Nicholas.
'
In old receipt books we find it invariably advised that an inebriate should drink sparingly in the morning some of the same
liquor which.he had drunk to excess over-night.
think find
it
true.
THE PROVERBS OF
8o
We saw each
And
The reckning
And
This done
He
we shooke
But
this
Many
and
kinsfolke
Folke say,
kinsfolke,
it
not.
mine.
my
way.
many
it
But, I finde
had
tliou
folke say
many
Seemed
had neede,
my
Every man
most
friends,
As
He
my
shall
we
see
before.
more ;
With
'
Pay
Well
returned againe.
the shot.
at your will
tricke to
am
Chapter
|URELY,
(quoth
81
XII.
ye have
I),
in this
time thus
worne,
Made a
That
telth us
when
selfe
little
corne.
sit in
the chaire,
Take no thought
And
'
in case,
When
all
is
where he was.
your
life
pas.
God
when
mend.
When
bale
is
Quoth Hendyng.
Proverbs of Hendyng, MS. circa 1320.
*
Put
An
case.
THE PROVERBS OF
82
this
well,
riches
Where
What man
the begger
may
theefe.
may sing
he), beggers
before theeves,
and
I feele,
money
to
Have
say,
not so
much
Time
Well, (quoth
),
Hunger pearceth
Menenius. But,
What
defend
God
will
send
withall.
God send
And
may hunger
as
buy meate
life,
stone wall.
beseech you.
i.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
83
And
after this
a month, or somewhat
lesse,
make
For
rent, to
a stresse
the stable.
For though
it
ill playing
be
Which meaneth,
man
staggers,
With
Where
And
as nothing
thus.
King
But warning
is,
the
is
tolde
right.
them quight.
needed none
For ere the next day the birds were flowne each one.
To
seeke service
The
She must
seeke elsewhere.
man was
sped.
For
To
^
lither,
Means
to project
schemes
my
1571.
THE PROVERBS OF
84
But
Under
their noses
More
in a
In a whole yeare.
hot,
Whereto folke
further weying,
Where
For
this
proverb preeves
Thus though
That meete
And
shall
And
That
'
guiles
miles.
And
chiving.
Where
ill
and thus
friends.
And it is a comon
be no
thefe.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Chapter
^H
sir,
(sayd
85
XIII.
marry,
would
no good, but
for
had come
hither.
am gon
is
Why are ye
I
tolde you,
that,
(quoth he)
when
I this
For
this,
began that
And
(quoth I)
would
having told
As
I of the tother
right
Or
as your selfe of
Nay
not
allso,
had
them
nought to say,
right
thinke cleare.
As
And
life,
ill
ye know.
86
To
take at end,
With thankes
at beginning bent,
was
for this
And
that ye herein
me
award
to forsake,
if
.^
To
it,
Alway
I)
try.
men have
gest
We have had,
(quoth
Weather, meete
I),
to sette paddocks
abroode
and when
sin.
in,
dinde.
And
all
Now
if
us,
good change of
ill
my
life.
weather be depending
it
will should
and
PART
Chapter
INNER
11.
I.
want.
Where coyne
is
be scant.
In poste pase
we
I),
and halfe
Which thing
errand,
th'
answer behinde.
you loth
THE PROVERBS OF
88
And
And
that time
Without more
againe
lost,
we cannot
win,
new
wife,
Age and
appetite
Her
lust
was
The
She
as
fell
yong
at
a strong
strife.
blere eyed.
Many men
Her waste
to be gyrde
Some
in,
and
But with
ill
That
for a
folke
it
Of auncient
'
So simper
was,
las.
it
boone grace,
favourd face.
socket,
so simper decocket?
no cure nor
care,
decocket.
And
Rummyng,
The word means a
coquettish
girl.
1520.
89
She tooke
th'
men
For
all
One sayd
goe
woman
;
she
and to
egges,
As
nice as
and sayde
is
this,
is
now
a nunnes ken.
Heywood.
al thei
be not soo
Another virtue
is
as nice as a
Women,
1462.
Nonnes Henna.
\'',(yi.
writers,
THE PROVERBS OF
go
To
She
beare a saddle.
As comely
as
is
in this
is
a cowe in a
mariage
cage.
come up
gill,
to supper.
is
is,
She
is so,
new band
man
kisse,
woman
away.
;
as he loveth
That
hand
heare say.
And
in
Jie
by God a vowe
."
Her
God
is
He
no botcher,
shapeth
sir,
all parts,
sayd another
as eche part
God
is
speede, be as be
That
Doe
shalbe, shalbe ;
well,
may
'"
done, and
all
other.
no banning.
This wonder
The
fit
Which
let
may
last),
shall
all.
gone
their waies,
is
JOHN heywood:,
Ordinary houshold
man
this
streiglit
What he would
91
began
his wife
Gromel-seede plenty
and pleasure to
was
fet
prefer,
The
first
month,
much
in
there,
set
her.
fall
turtle burds.
All the
first
Any yong
Some
laught,
Some
thereto said
But since
and sayd
;
all thing is
gay
that is greene.
cleene.
folke
had
in fearing.
is
Creseide.
as a nine-days wonder.
Ascham's Schoole-master.
THE PROVERBS OF
92
Where
love
Hot as a
had appeared
toste, it
Hee at meate
Now
in
him
to her
away
carved he to
all
they their
From laughing
That
tippets^''-
to lowring,
by way of exchaunge,
Mary
Cats
he,
sir,
cats in
togetlter,
by
and biting.
folks reciting.
How be it those
utter,
a gutter.
you to
I),
cheerely.
settle,
Poor key-cold
figure of
a holy king.
Richard III.
i.
2.
'^
Now it
it
Another Bridget
formerly
Ben Jonson,
Case
is
Altered.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
But wavering as the winde
93
Now in, now out now here, now there now sad.
Now mery now hie, now lowe now good, now bad.
;
'"
In
A charm for a nettle sting which had early passed into a proverb
expressive of inconstancy.
Ye wete
Nettle
in,
Docke
out,
and with
I)
this the
weathercocke waved.
my
besides
Women.
THE PROVERBS OF
94
Chapter
I
USBAND,
II.
(quoth shee),
would we were
in
our nest;
When
the belly
is full,
at rest.
By
ill
no question,
he),
Timon.
And
will
.?
A burnt childe
dreads the
fFyre.
From
"
Why,
hond,
circa 1320.
to piller.
Meletya. Sister,
Celia.
is
is
sister,
why
.'
flatter,
She
JOHN HEYWOOD.
By
And
that surfet.
I feele
Whereby, except
Before
it
I shall
leave me,
To goe
to
it.
seeme to leave
shee), I
Too soone
of
fyt
little
9S
my
wit
felt
paine
it.
never yet
rising againe.
mee
displeased.
not,
an other may.
to
not,
be eaten
an
other,
Long
I rise
lying
earely and
warme
in
doth
While
exercysing
rise
come
bed
is
ye as
to
bed
say,
be wed.
readie.
late.
men
he).
do,
Will, 1607.
'
MS.
THE PROVERBS OF
96
And
When
in all this
and
lie
downe.
viii, ix,
or ten,
whole towne,
rise
just,
(quoth she),
As Jermans lipsP
Then prove
It shall
I,
he).
away
But
for
Her
he), night
Because shee
" Just
As
is
as
aged, and
Jennans
is
somewhat too
old.
lips.
just as
mile.
Agree
lippes.
"
Nofoole to
just as
Germans
the oldfoole.
kilth mee.
And
In warming her.
As
doe but
Who
(quoth shee),
that worst
mary
may
yes
by
geare
this
stone^'^
seint Johne.
is
alone.
for
But
roste
A syr,
I
97
is
Then
is
now
farewell
my
b[e]gun, but
it,
have
told.
will
be soone gon.
strife to
breake
As wee
mee.
holde on,
if it
How be
for
it
see
This trade
should
at ones lashing,
soft for
dashing.
And
new
knit.
From
And
We be
to the pilory.
Which
thing,
" Boste a
and make
it
may
more
bring.
strong,
stone.
They may
garlicke pill
Cary sackes
to the mil
to
Court ? 1520.
THE PROVERBS OF
98
Old wise
I
say
folke say
love
me
little,
litle,
love
me longP
thinke more
to the
wrong shore.
To
How
For a beginning,
And but
feate
is
We
behinde.
fit,
my
it
were a
Or
it.
The worst
How
was a
this
be
to put
I),
^ Love me
litle,
me,
and
grewe.
to set strife
folly for
the barke
wife
it
the tree.
fire,
in the mire.
Thought
iv.
is free.
Since thought
is free,
will,
24,195.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
To meddle
litle
for
mee
it is
best
may
make
hir
in giving
yet,
if
is
hir wise.
no
childe.
Well, (quoth
To
I),
to
morowe
I will to
my beades.
And
I
but
make
your advice.
rest?'^
99
in
will
meane time
my
Quoth
he,
when yee
please.
rest.
THE PROVERBS OF
Chapter
'
HESE
two dayes
ye
Come
past,
will,
chat at home,
have
III.
well
all is
Jacke shall
Gill.
staffe,
(quoth
I),
now
But
if
selfe
any
'
And whom
Shee
may
say, (quoth
I),
if
side to hide.
afooles bolt
is
soone shot?
Weare a breeche.
All
women be
suche,
1515.
Sot
is
sone shote,"
Quoth Hendyng.
Proverbs of Hendyng, MS. circa 1320.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Yee
mee
will
And
And
And
a busy
officer I
may
Or chat
me
as wise as
if I
it,
see neede, as
bid
me
walke,
calfe* to talke,
I will
my
doe
part
comth
too,
my best.
And
I
may
Waltams
How be
I
appeere
ic
did
'
And
so.
Wife us
side.
espide.
For
liberalitie is
RiCH'S
office,
Farewell
to
Militarie
Profession, 1581.
*
To
is
1571.
He
Of logyke nor
Ray
suck a bull."
scole matter.
Walthams
calf,
THE PROVERBS OF
I02
me
With
Saying
So
in fewe words,
it is,
For
my
by
all fraies
I fully
to
to
you
to
meeve
hope
this I trust
my husband
Not
mind
the sleeve,
Is forgiven
And
me by
puld
I),
will
amend.
relent.
pray you,
And
him he
tel
winke on me.
Take me
in
any
trip.
perverse
is
Also hardly,
Quoth
I,
now and
if
than.
yee can
am
loth
'
Where
is this
stranger
Who
may
Valentinian,
ii.
4.
To shoe the goose (gosling here for the sake of rhyme) means
simply to perform a work of supererogation.
An inscription on
JOHN HEYWOOD.
103
I will
will,
us,
(quoth
when
I), ill
may be
els
it
might
rage.
windes to swage,
at need, though
waste wind
in
vaine.
To
And
The
first
is
show the
stalls
a new
frey.
And in
hie.
and so they,
soone broken ;
one of the
bolde.
us cheere heaven
As ye
made
ghos.
What
circa 1525
It is
as great pyte to se a
woman wepe
as a gose to go barefote,
and reappearing in a new dress in Sir Walter Scott's novel, " Rob
Roy," where it is thus put into the mouth of Bailie Nicol Jarvie
It's nae mair ferlie to see a woman greet than to see a goose
gang barefit.
'
Merry
Eyre.
Pie.
as a pie.
By
my
Liege,
1600.
I'll
be as merrie as
THE PROVERBS OF
104
Chapter IV
USBAND,
now,
And
Nay
I
not
thinke
so,
how you
my
thought to
tell right,
Never faile
No wife,
hath nine
lives like
my
may
(quoth she), ye
life.
cat.
oldyewes^
th'
forbid, wife,
It is a
And
God
ye
I will
So
woman
my lambe,
Well,
As
As
as
it is
we
an
clouting.
long.
ill stake, I
What neede
As
all this,
Quoth
he, I will
man may
not pledge.
^c.
common
Fools.
of
'
What,
the ridge ; I
loj
have heard
But somewhat
And both
when
see,
it is, I
her eyen
out,
but further
let
the
strife to
cast her
Wherewith
husband
all,
like
in a great
shunne,
mouse runne.
tell.
For
my
But of troth
thought
he),
better to
wife, as
gooldly
'
Proferd service
is
a goodly dish
have
tJien
gilt goblets, as
I),
wish.
this
he)
.-'
here be.
maketh a show.
stinketh.
Me
upon the soyou wil soone chaunge your coppie is your minde on your
meate ? a penny for your thought.
Mistres fquoth he) if you would by al my thoughts at that
price, I should never be wearye of thinking, but seeing it is too
deare, reade it and take it for nothing. Euphues. The Anatomy
thinke, Euphues, chaunging so your colour
deine,
of Wit, 1579.
THE PROVERBS OF
io6
wrong understood),
Each
my
Comth
the wood.'^
of neede,
And my
he), doth
men
bestfeede.
Yet
And who
man.
" The crow thinkth her owne birds fairest in the wood.
must needs be good ground that brings fortb such good come
I look on him, methinks him to be evill favoured,
Yet the crowe thinkes her black birds of all other the fairest.
LuPTON's Atl for Money, 1578.
It
When
calves.
Now
You may
Honeysuckle.
It
see
makes
fat calves in
An
all
may
thing
you cannot
Your
lips
hang
itch
see the
wood for
trees.^^
in your owne
But ye be a
Fancy may
she),
boult bran,
While
it
Snow
take itfloure.
It will
mine
eie.
is
white,
1
>-
And
man sees,
light,
wot well
Yes,
ease.
And
And
Plentie is no daintie ;
I see,
107
see the
a
And
1
every
man
-,
lets it lye.
'
woodfor trees.
II.
A Letany for S.
Omers, 1682.
THE PROVERBS OF
io8
Pepper
^^ is blacke
hath a good smack.
")
5-
And
And
lieth
Inke
is all
is
white,
But
And
"|
all
meate.
No man
will
Thou
likenest
White snow
Which
then mine,
as
ill
white milke
is
is
drinke nor
it
by the
Blacke inke
And
now
is
j ^i -^ uit bie.
man doth
every
rood,
skin,
good.
is
is
ill.
who chaunge
wil
Though chaunge
Yet
shall that
For who
That
As
.''
chaunged
case.
soone see in
wit.
it.
a lyke
to
compare in
tast, chalke
and cheese}*
for cheese.
GOWER'S
Though I have no learning, yet
yohn Bon and Mast Person, 1548.
Confessio Amantis.
chalke.
in colour to
109
Nay, (quoth
chalke.
walke ;
How
And
Or
If
lest
be
it sir, I
here,
yee hale
Here
is
Here
way,
this
God in
tk'
and even
(quoth
this,
Wrap
it
in the cloth,
Ye harpe on
I).
yee,
yee
Quoth
may
hee, nay,
say.
and tread
it
under
foote.
Marke
there, ho,
I will
ambry, (quoth
I),
so.
Since
say not
how
by
saint
Antony.
hee).
And
Since
tit
(quoth
I),
on even hand
is set,
The
oen.
Chifipes, 1573.
In Harman'S
some
'"
chese.
Tit for
Vulgaria, 1530
for
tat, is
tryfull pley
THE PROVERBS OF
no
She
is,
To know that
the grey
mare is
me
my
to
clargie
is
hardy.
And
my new
driblets,
Our
iii.)
by the
ablest of those
And adds
"
in a note
The common
originated,
finest
later instances.
1550.
Hudibras.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
But
And hold ye
own
In your
And
ofhauking
Nay
turne.
rather, (quoth
I),
my
I will spit in
holdfast ;^
leafe,^^
is
in
fall
Must be
He
by sage
it
Upon
being
But that
Well, (quoth
I),
too
sawes.
complayne
faultlesse.
much
of one thing
is
not good
leafe.
He tumeth
bring to passe.
Health
to the
Gentlemanly Profession of
Servingmen, 1598.
The
And
smallest
3
^'
He
Henry
VI.
ii.
2.
at
Elderton'S Lenton
Stuffe, 1570.
THE PROVERBS OF
112
Leave
off this
But sufferance
No, (quoth
Be
is
she),
it,
(quoth he),
fall
wee
nor misreckning
is
no payment.
to our food.
is
my
frend.
We three from
them
Chapter
To
home
V.
this night.
sayd).
Of things which
We
in
Three
may
I),
for
men
say,
^ Three may
if
twain be away.
Aaron. But,
Nurse. Corneha the midwife, and myself
And no one else, but the deliver'd empress.
Aaron. The empress, the midwife, and yourself
Two may keep counsel, when the third 's away.
Titus Andronicus,
:
iv. 2.
JOHN HEYWOOV.
But
all
I will
unmeet agayne
mum, and
she), herein
Whom
And
for these
In
To
all
mum
to
tell,
is counsell.
avoyding
all feares,
Which
made
113
tooke.
me by day and by
Secondly, the
full
substance which
to
night.
him brought.
in
spending
it
He is so lavish, the
And as for gaine is
When
Ech
'
Jte
in
is
tumbe,
thum.be.
tuyde eares.
Richard III.
ii.
4.
114
THE PROVERBS OF
As handsomly
Hang on
He
his sleeve
hath his
That
is
will sure
They can
He maketh
To bring a
his
his hood?
currifavell,
If
allure.
tho7igs
of other mens
leather.'*
We shall
Many
see
is
many handes
werke my leve child.
the Goode Wif Thaught Mr Daughter.
How
Make
light
wyll
It
obedient
The werke
'
eele skinnes
The Dis-
in use
rival
will
make your
hair
grow
thorough.
*
li
leather.
MS.
circa 1300.
yOBN HEYWOOD.
115
What
Than up goeth
(saith he)
I),
I.
his staffe to
this confusion.
this
kept
The greatest
I thinke,
Was
mee backe
(quoth
I),
who
Out of Gods
'
Now
here wel,
it is
warme SunneP
treue that
Out of Gods
Therefore
if
Tale.
warme Sunne.
my
advice,
THE PROVERBS OF
ii6
And
Folkes shew
run
7^1?
much
folly,
that
to the foote,
if
wee thinke us
when
may goe to
let,
But
I trust
I trust
if
yee
the
will
you
to
speake on
with the
nay, in trust
come
it,
it.
him then
his lyke.
head?
woo
you, and
mynd,
('quoth
I),
is treason.
this season,
a conquest to
Good king
sit
in
best
make
warme Sunne
of a
warme Sunne.
into
Ibid.
To
'
the
warm
Where
sun.
that
King Lear,
ii.
2.
And
till
To run
Gower's
'
Con/essio Amantis.
Thou
Ware
thy hede
falle to
on
seta,
thy
sole.
'
the dyke ;
fete.
1350.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
117
To
at end.
As
to
make him
do nought
in this.
in this
complaynt
and
let
is.
cleare,
us heare.
Folly is to
To
wall.
By
this
winch or kicke
yee
may
see,
And
is
your daunce.
my tongue is
To match and
to
Tongue breaketh
bone, it selfe
Tongue breaketh
I).
bone, &".
a limme,
THE PROVERBS OF
ii8
The
perill of
Advise yee
Flee
th'
well, for
little
here doth
more or
lesse
foe
note,
worth a groate.
is
all
lye
attempting of extremities
Folke say
For
owne
by
and
bleede.
all.
no debate make,
seeme not
to
awake.
to the pot^'^
we
all
day
see.
circa 1320.
still
1566.
Oh
'
to the pot.
where
in
many
119
Be
If
It
is
may
Chatting to chiding
see
Were
And
many
lose,
good sleeping
We
soonest over^^
silent.
Suffer
men may
is
rover.
in a whole skinne.
bill
to say, the
crow
is
whight.
And yet
alway
beane.
Where hedge
is
is lowest, &'C.
man
Fortune
treads downe,
list
to frowne.
Gascoigne's
Posies, 1575.
THE PROVERBS OF
I20
Then be
pain.
thus
Then
to braide
it,
and shake
him with
it
it off.
in earnest or in scoffe.
yee
flee.
See
That
be tong tyed
I will
.'
yee
to
(quoth shee),
Well, (quoth
your part
I),
shall preeve,
But
I
for
company
ill
heare no
And
there
Well, well,
What
man
is
or expense extreeme,
deeme
make no fyre,
see.
My fathers
blessinge then
asked uppon
me
my knee,
these woordes gan say
My Sonne, God guide thy way, and shielde thee from mischaunce,
And make
" Clokefor
the rayne.
Nicholas. 'Tis
good
to
a bad
shift
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Myselfe can
tell best
where
And
done, for
so hath
How
fleck
By one
it
and
my
where fyre
his
make
byrd, that in
shooe doth
is,
smoke
will appeere.
myne
For
moe
wring mee}''
eare
was
late chaunting.
121
blocks in his
I),
way
men
say
to lay.
ils.
Besyde the
With
calets
is
better then
a doore
"
naile.
none
eies
at all
He
sit
eares^^
heere, as
if I
yee wot.
were as dead as
of Abingdon, 1599.
Myselfe can tell best where tny shooe doth wring mee.
Je scay mieux ou
le
bas
me
blesse.
The were
Wode has
bettur be
erys, felde
1577.
eares.
still
has
sijt
circa 1300.
THE PROVERBS OF
122
And
also
my
on
maydes he
is
may
ever tooting.
by
I),
this
cat
My cats
my
And
specially
by
his
first
show,
wawing
manner of drawing
He
What, a
looke on a
looking
for
may
as he
he come ny her,
comth by her.
the
wull,^
If he leave
He
it
not,
we have a crow
to pull}
loveth well sheeps flesh, that wets his bred in the wull.
Of the shepe
awaye no thynge
His home for nockes, to haftes go his bone,
is
caste
To
'
We
have a crow
Abelle.
to pull.
Dere brother,
will fayre
fuUe.
we have a craw
to puUe.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
He
Than
It
I
is
mee
And
ticke
nest?-
live as
Hee
Must do nothing
To
To
123
exprest,
to
bee fixed
doo,
lawfull leeve
my
in
ill
sleeve.
mynde.
Than
I
faynde
this
how
fancy to feele
I)
it
ease,
should please.
art lofiHch
Jjine
And ek
mene
fedest
Jju
and undene
on heom a
inne
chinne
Heo sittefi jjar so li beo bisne
Dahet habba fat ilke best
pel Jjostu
Hi
\>3.t
fulef) hit
{"at fulelj
hi dot'
up
to
Jjar
{"e
Howe
lerne ye
circa 1250.
may,
1520.
THE PROVERBS OF
124
And
if
yee chaunce
in
his
on the
the hip^ or
head
fast
hirdell,
under your
girdell.
And further
That
at
Then
all
I shall
hap
so,
giltlesse appeere,
Of all
it
may
folkes himselfe
as soone try
cleere.
this
way,
I shall
catch
'
evill.
on the hip.
Which
thing to do,
Othello,
*
ii.
7.
Qr'c.
spoon.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
I
the devil
have heard
wylie mouse
Shall
It
is
is
no
titat
get within
falser
tell, it
hard halting
than
had need
is
125
hee.
to bee
him than
geare,
yee wot.
before a creeple^
Namely
not
I, (I
say),
Antipholus.
warrant
though as
seldom,
I),
yow
sayd,
by some be bewrayed.
Why, Dromio?
Dromio. Marry, he must have a long spoon, that must eat with
the devU.
Comedy of Errors,
iv. 3.
Chaucer, Squieres
'
wylie mouse,
Tale.
Gr'c.
eeris.
1450.
a wyly mouse
That can build his dwellinge house
It is
eare.
Skelton,
"
// is
1520.
creeple.
and Leonora
de Valases, by
GEORGE Gascoigne,
1575.
THE PROVERBS OF
126
Your mayd
and
of mouth.
still
shee), as of
be
theefe.
They
way
Than
But
wall.
shee).
Nor
I,
I saide
also
From
I shall
like
No, (quoth
And
streite.
if
suspicion to knowledge of
yll,
.'
forsooth,
And
change from
Let time
trie.
And deeme
And reason
paine to worse,
il
Time
the best
saith,
is
worth small
make
hire.
doubt
out.
all
were proved as
ill
as
you
to winke,
ye thinke),
Ye
'
fret
and ye fume as
As mad as a march
I
saye, thou
mad as
a march
Itare?
hare.
madde Marche
hare.
1520.
But by such
127
report, as
most prove
lyes at last.
Kndfolke
The
blinde eate
Of your
Ye
colours,
most blind in
many flyes?
by
old sawes,
owne
their
Howbeit the
cawse.
fancie
could
But
fall.
tell
as folke doe,
it is
For they
say, saying
and
way
things
is,
In
my
house
to
lay fire
and tow
dreede.
in the whole,
togither.
Gets.
'
The
many fyes.
many a
flye
ijio.
often, iwis,
is
not
his.
Schole-house of
Women,
1541.
THE PROVERBS OF
128
And
if
they
More tow on
And
fire
the best of
them
shall
For
measures, or else
saint Audrie,
the miller
Cast what
may
And
scape,
my
More tow on
were a childe
must banish
ill,
tnicch
I finde
it,
meale grinde
mill to fine
any
mill.
I will
and as though
'"
by
I feare false
whose wul.
it.
rest in effect,
maides such as
their distaves,
suspect.
(Src.
friar
defeat
I
"
my
dystaffe than I
by the mill,
Qr'c.
it
so strange
She is
She is
She is
What,
Of a
Andronicus,
ii.
7.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Better
it
As good
undone, (quoth
Keepe ye
Out
till
it
had
it
soone fare ye
as secret as ye thinke
at doores
been done.
as doe
I),
129
too soone.
well,
meete
:
and
this
is.
and hereupon
And
Thus he began
in
way
of exclamation.
Chapter
|H what
choice
VI.
may compare
to the divels
life,
Namely such an
As evermore
like
Where
every
Wherefore
no good accord,
man would be a
my wife will be
To make me
Before
is
To make my
Lord.
wife
bow
since, I
made
reckning.
at every beckning.
THE PROVERBS OF
I30
how
Bachelers boast,
good
When
and maides
Bachelers wives,
And
this
with
this I also
At my
But
will I
finde
all is
sought,
begin to gather,
and
feele,
That
to
am
nie led.
It is said of old,
But by God,
th'
And
I),
When
folkes
sore i^"^
is
much
to blame.
first
in
your
lap,
They would
"^
Bachelers wives,
The maid's
"
Sr'c.
sore.
sore.
JOHN HEYWOOp.
Not minding thereby than
For they had good hope
But since
their
to see
oft,
So can your
it,
when ye have
was gotten on a
it.
holy day.
Ye
it
Saith another,
This
131
is
ment
Too
But
Whose
And
lend,
among
such,
spend
it
all
they disalow,
Because ye would
kill
Alway
to yow.
all
have
affoords,
their words,
Ye
her
in.
THE PROVERBS OF
132
This
biteth the
mare by
For
The
Yet should
this
tels,
With many
Now, (quoth
I), if
all
and doth
is ill,
all spill.
clatter,
He
that hath
an
ill
name
Chapter
;ELL
show.
VII.
For honestie,
sir
here
is
a tale
on
sale.
Of
the jelousie of
Then
shall
How she
dame
Julok,
my wife,
define.
bee.
133
run over
The proverbe
all
not
of that, (quoth
I),
for at
a word,
sword
The
But
my dame
Reporteth
it
She
will as fast as
She
is
And
if
Kisse any of
The cow
If
it
is
most mischeefe.
men by
of troth as false as
my maides
full preefe,
God
me
Her
dish.
is trew.
at a
vew
in earnest, after
wood.
Bedlam
sort}^
" He
&r'c.
After Bedlam,
sort.
St.
Mary
of Bethlehem,
THE PROVERBS OF
134
If
it
She beginneth
To which
As
first
the
such an one.
world mnth on
wheeles.
till
mercie.
Thus when
'
I see
not,
ofheeles.
horse.
his
forth.
Tarlton with merry
a mercy, horse." In the end
Tarlton, seeing the people laugh so, was angry inwardly, and
God
JOHN HEYWOOD.
135
And that the eye seeth not, the hart reweth not ; ^^
Ahd that he must needes goe whom the divell doth drive,^^
He forcing me for mine ease to contrive,
To let her fast and freat alone for me,
I goe where merry chat and good cheere may be.
Much spend
abroad, which at
home
should be spent.
If she
There
lept
a whiting, (quoth
said
Sir,
more than
had
that.
his beard,
she),
and
lept in streite.
and marke
this conceite,
What
ere
it
would doe
Isabel.
'
He
Greene's Never
must
too Late,
590.
THE PROVERBS OF
136
He maketh you
My brauling
beleeve,
by
lyes layd
on by
lode,
*
So melteth
his
Thus may ye
Or
money
see
turne
to
tJie
well he can.
It
The
It is
of the
word
word
its
delicate;
Hog hath
this
to cater.
Some
As
it
to the
Low
Latin
1565.
Rabelais.
Harry White's humour.
Item. He deemes that a preposterous government where the
wife predominates, and the husband submits to her discretion,
that is Hysterion and Proteron, the cart before the horse.
This
is
Harry White,
his
Humour.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
And
come
if I
Then
to be
Where he with
At which
I
came
merry where he
he mad, as ye
is
shall heare
as use
is,
he payd
the merrier^
all,
but
Wherewith
The moe
we
all
day here
is
'
is
it is ill
meate
camming,
pas
see.
Here
little
let
merrily,
but
this.
Then
And
is.
to be merrie.
Proface.
by
137
left, if
I),
too
many
there be any.
blinde harpers.
Macaulay observes that in the old ballad poetry, all the gold
" red " and all the ladies " gay." So also, it may be remarked
that, as in the instance before us, all the harpers are afflicted
with blindness.
Phil.
"
The
title
of
in 1651.
^
The moe
the m,errier.
makes no
Store
And mo
sore
the merier
is
Gascoigne'S
Posies, 1575.
THE PROVERBS OF
138
To
th'
end of a
shot,
he),
And fray here should be none, were thou gone thy way.
Here
is
come, (quoth
Nay
if I shall,
me welcome
pig
Lord
blesse
me
me
have, (quoth
Many
Her
is
bed.
From
I
thus
to be one here,
I),
It is merrie in hall
What, bid
goest
many feete a
I),
yeares since
elders
would
my
say, it is better to be
For
hangd
// is merrie in hall
fish.
all.
all
Henry IV.
v. 3.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
139
quoth
Would
to
But best
And
for
my
Must she
Among
I,
kinde comming,
us
all letting
Such
for here I
such
lips,
lettice,
this is
places.
may
my
be sparde.
rewarde.
be welcome to us
such a farewell
fall
chips,
all,
tell.
owne welcome
he), thine
mard.
Well, (said she), whensoever
we
My words
be pried at narrowly
Ye can
see
But ye cannot
see
I espie.
eie.
be unable,
As
Marston's
'
Royle,
i.e.
A Flemish horse^
Insatiate Countess.
THE PROVERBS OF
140
To give a dog a
have
loafe, as I
oft said.
still
Apparell, and
all
things that
be denaid,
meate,
finest
money may
fine
and
get,
so neate,
made of wheate.
better
bread than
is
(quoth he),
men say
cleere.
man
Ye
To buy
Then
too deere.
for
much.
But temprance teacheth
this,
where
he
keepeth
schoole
He
that knoweth
is
And
mark
in the contrarie
is
this condition
is
The
no foole.
in the wane.
all
alway
And men
chepe
Letherly for-yeldys."
1420.
yOHN HEYWOOD.
Of gluttonie, but
But
some
pride sometime,
proverbe preacheth to
this
men
a merrie meane^ as
is
Not
The
And
May
Yet
doth show,
and stark
can
blinde.
finde.
wit,
the
day never so
last they
ring
to
yit.
long,
evensong}^
and little
tJie
to
Thus
thine eye?
he sure be
Little losse
hie,
Evermore at
Yet
this
say.
haute or
too
is
And
nor
141
end of
bite
all things,
a two a
be we
cable.
leefe or loth.
Measure
is
a merrie meatie.
is a mery mene.
a blannched almonde is no bene,
mete for a marchauntes hall.
Interlude of Magnyfycence, circa
Measure
'
Be
is
syr,
1520.
Sr'c.
At
evensong.
142
THE PROVERBS OF
Yet
long
to the
commeth home
water goth,
brokenP-
Till at last
it
Few words
If
Here
is
For though
Yet when
good
So
are,
Thy
she).
he).
mard.
and
tales,
ill
hard.
short
ivit,^^
wife.
to the
water goth,
Sr'c.
And
therfore
it
is
a trew proverbe,
l>at
it is
1590.
wit.
Decker's Satiromastix,
1602.
yOHN HEYWOOD.
But long
be thy legs,
T am not
Well
spend
saist I
all,
Thou
sick,
(quoth she).
to,
(quoth
gossipst at
he).'
wander
if
neede bee,
shall
Whereby
life.
comth
When
Thou
be thy
lets
Thgu
and short
143
home
to
me
meete
for thee.
abrode to spend.
me
at lands end.
snudge.
Every day
Not
so,
Honestly
I
to be thy drivell
to keepe the
and drudge.
But had
my wedding to flee,
long to wedding had wamd mee.
The termes
First
that
wooing
The banes
for woing,
for
my bane,
banna
for banning,
and then
THE PROVERBS OF
144
Marrying, marring.
And what
A woman.
say,
As who
Thus wed
I
man.
to the
I Gill,
than
wed
Jane,
divell
lane.
I graunt,
On
wed
with woe,
woe
maried
your side
Thou grantst
but on
in words,
my
side in deede.
Leave
To
this,
growne by your
stint strife,
whom
liberalitie,
prodigalitie.
I erst
did berrie.
answered with
is
thinke
To
my
make
churles whole
selfe
mine owne
And
And
as for
in
ill
this
first
too,
wed
husband spared
woorse
Whereby
No man
wife
life.
learne to
Than
As
it
this,
than
I into
itt
in
more
goe.
will another
thee,
for mee.
me
any
erectour,
by
the weeke,
A hackney proverb
in
since
JOHN HEYWOOD.
God
And would
145
say no more,
prove
may
It
It is
be
a slaunder, but
it is
He would make
But
no
not deny.
ly.
she), I
wot what
it
me
till
to touch ye nyer
he winch, and
yit.
seeme that
though
I wot,
Ye
fetch circumquaques to
Or
And when
It
moone
make me
is
beleeve.
made of a greene
cheese}*
little
ye have made
to Saffron
Waldon, 1596.
is
tell
made of a greene
cheese.
lowde
lyes, so that
they
THE PROVERBS OF
146
Nay, (quoth
he), the
day of doome
shall be doone,
Thou
art, (to
flatter thee),
many
many
hell,
!
many buckets.
many buffets.
wels,
words,
ere
Jte bite,
and so thow.
But
it is
hard
to
trow now.
lo.
(quoth she), a
Husbands are
not.
Thy
That aspen
leafe
That my cap
God send
it itcJieth not.
make thy
tales
would
more
cold.
is better
at ease then
my
head.
all
the bodie
is
the wurse.
both two,
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Or
147
'
she),
had
not been
it
wast.
How can
A peece of a
kid
is
sit
cat.
Where 'mine
appetite serveth
Except thou
Thou
heele.
delitefull,
worth two of a
If I might change, I
Or
Who
he),
it
to fare like
like a
mee
Duke, (quoth
wilt spare
to bee,
a Duke with
she),
thee.
thou shalt
fare,
spare.
thee harme,
good.
Yes
/ know on which
But there
And
on
will
my
side
my
bread
is
words
buttred :
no butter cleave on
uttred,
'^
my bread
*-THE
148
Is as sure as
Or a mouse
Thou
tyed with a
lettest
But take up
it
PROVERBS OF
even
like
slip,
butter,
threed.
a waghalter
Now
all
thy pleasure
is,
rest.
Chapter
5ITH
this
he
What
Howbeit
it
Where
is all
VIII.
I,
this
wretchedness could
on
my
have no wrong,
selfe along.
To have made
first
with rough
little
bit.
fit,
winning-.
O Lord,
cride.
wretch but
onely
thiefe.
bide
ill
Where
For
slipstring.
is,
(as old
men
seeth,
JOHN HEYWOOD.
inputting a naMt sword in a
Or
kill her,
yet shall
And
it is ill
say),
stiffe
many
tfiat is
chance have
will
to
make
So
it
may
This day.
I
fault
I,
necked evermore,
did espie,
Ifitely I
will eate
had sorow to
yeares agone.
fall, I
Well (quoth
her,
amend
Which
I
no
maime
That
been
What
149
my
no browesse sops
after this
came
in are,
I), it is illjesting,
on the sooth
liorse.
in his
Humour.
THE PROVERBS OF
I50
Sooth bourd
Such
is
No playing with
Every
trifling
to mirth
this
And
for a
it is
at.
finde.
what
for
Ye may walke
Ye
woman
hot word.
is
Soone
olde
also she
fairest flowre in
is all
your garland,
scand.
Take heede
is
I shall
scof.
this blindnes.
follow her
will,
'*
Sooth
is
is
no boord.
;"
bourd
Harrington's
returne
and
if I
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Bir Ladie,
we
shall
theti
I),
151
say).
Amen, (quoth
I will
And
he),
now mend
that he
this
ment
For so appaird he
That
Till
To
little
and
by
of likelihood
his
owne
he decayed so
little
he at length came
to
buckle
and
were growne,
long.
bare thong.
There was no
foreseene in this
To keepe
to stay
misse him.
blisse
him.
still
he
lingers,
He
is
lippes.
Vulgaria
iv. 2.
if
they can
THE PROVERBS OF
152
tales
were sprinkhng,
Or
that he
And
turne his
ill
In shewing himselfe a
That
new man,
as
was
Chapter
|NE day
in their
fit,
yit.
IX.
mine,
incline,
As
like
But the
And
Of
unkind condition.
As he
As
all free,
as
he
full
deeply swore,
th' offeree
now
say.
againe yesterday.
That
153
may
of yesterday
may
redeeme.
wife, think I
pas.
plaine.
But
am, (quoth
she),
And amend
ye or
What
where
is life,
Namely
am
living
is
tune you
in
And hope
it.
.'
tale could
If I tune
not, I
neede
But no
he), it is faire
me
from
dispaire.
Beleeve well
Who
of no
Which
and have
man
to you,
Then were ye
Who
well,
tride,
He must
both
.?
tell you
tale,
eares.
THE PROVERBS OF
IS4
is so
deafe or so blinde, as
is hee,
When
Or sowre
And
of hearing,
this is
Who
eares,^ thicke
ale
to
way
my
profit
woe
mends
thefietcher
the
see f
heart for
mendeth in summer,
knew, which
Though not
my
molt.
his
bolt.
know,
will blow.
When
was
right
ill
On
such, as
no more.
bite sore.
swolne.
Withal'
s Dictionary, i6o8.
The middle
in the whole
it
divell
is
dead
looke like a
Looke
And
as ye
wife,
Lambe
list
in all
Which
he), for
ye
see,
now, (quoth
she),
shew
this,
to
Such proofe of
(quoth
ISS
this proverbe, as
none
is
greater
saith, that
Than some
other
me ye may
words, but
But now
see,
was
if
better
not one
ye looke.
yee tooke
five
feet.
that the Devil looked upon it with an envious eye whence the
proverb of a man who looks invidious and malignant, " he looks
it
Another account
Some
is
given by
Ray
in 1737
Oxford.
It will be remembered that in Sir Walter Scott's novel of
Kenilworth, Giles Gosling, the host of the Black Bear at
" Here be a set of good
Cumnor, thus addresses Tressilian
fellows willing to be merry ; do not scowl on them like the
:
Tophas.
for as
THE PROVERBS OF
iS6
And
I
to
When
to thrive,
yee were.
not seeld,
Whan
thrift
was
in the field,
ye ware
in the towne.
What ye wan
In
all
where most
field,
thrift
lept over
And
if
the tone
a block?
in choice,
did appiere,
ankers,
faile,
all
I rejoice
men have
tolde.
may
holde.
the tother
th' eare.
ii.
7.
Ye stumbled at a straw,
Sr'c.
JOHN "HEYWOOD.
And
1S7
So may
It
is
my
deepe dolour,
This case
To
say heere, to
is
colour.
yours.
Th' advise of
Went in
and out at
the totherP
came,
in
friends now.
To my
friends.
my
dog.''
One
'
What man,
eare
it
dog.
et
canem
me ?love my dog
am bound to that by the
Cudora. Love
Tharsalis.
Dicitur
proverb, madam.
Chapman's Widov/s Tears,
1612.
THE PROVERBS OF
158
But you
Cast
to cast precious
my good
'When
Which
I
is
my good
And
Ruine of one
For by your
ravine,
gifts
As you be much
hope,
I will
'
if
they be as
Light
gretter
cast away.
to
good^ men
now begin
we were borne,
the better.
little
he), every
(I say),
sure since
Well (quoth
I
to their good.
An
For
can no farthing of
Nor
men come
thrift,
when
all
say.
the come.
out-worne.
seemeth gone.
thrift
Wyte
thou wele
it
schall
be
schcill
lyghtly go.
so,
An
ill
Falstaff.
Pistol.
winde,
Not
the
Tools.
<S-f.
ill
hither. Pistol
man
to good.
Henry IV.
v. 3.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
What wife
And I will
assay
Till I finde
Ye
As
there be
will get
all
more waies
to the
wood than
one.
159
this good.
I feare.
Good words
tree,
camok
beey^
How
Which
is
thrift,
thrift
upon
is
a workman
Tales of Robin
'
.'
even
so.
good thorne.
In the interlude oi Jacob and Esau, 1568, the old nurse Debora,
while making preparations for Isaac's repast, sings
:
young
it
madam, crooks
Lyly'S Endimion.
THE PROVERBS OF
i6o
Hee can
creepe into
my mouth ;
How yee
I
will
man say
to his daughter,
Wee
Although
Yet
since I
laugh again at
am
bent to
sit,
last,
cast.
"
tale
of a
tubbe.
To which Medlay,
JOHN HEYWOOD.
Yee never could
To win
As
any hap,
he), care
not a rush.
I will
Yee
i6i
will,
Your
tales
have lyke
tast,
where temprance
is taster,
To
Yee
Than an
May
thrift.
yet thrive,
As an
Yee
ell.
(I
say), as
both
ell
good
is
will,
inch,
you
an ynch
make
tooke
it
an
so well,
ell,
in det.
Nay, (quoth
he),
As much
as
may
And
still.
I will
of your
ell
an ynch of your
this
could doo as
To
practice
to the
THE .PROVERBS OF
i62
As
assure you.
Doo
Had
Than
as yee have
men have
would
not,
told.
if
ye
list
my
for
Verba leges
to bring
the skin.
out,
it
blessing in a cloute.
had
ony.
Ovid, Amor.
So
in TibuUus, lib.
Neu
el.
i.
4. 20.
liquorem
ducat in orbe notas.
Ne
The use
i.
trahat, et
menss
seem
among
the Elizabeth-
to
1609.
Yee
cast
As
the blind
163
man
in
show.
crow ;
How
Yet
be
it,
had
money
right
And
Hee may
But
first flattreth
my
me
Ave
soone
my
Creede}*
Here
is
to prayers,
But some
" Hee
men say,
may
be in
my
Pater
noster, Qr'C.
trust
christall stone,
some
of
my
Dream,
'^
who
curse the
Chettle's Kind-Heart's
1592.
No peny,
no Pater noster.
The
Pater-noster, which
written in the
1587.
THE PROVERBS OF
i64
No
But
longer lemman.
Pray and
shift
Everyman for
To
faire
all.
From harping on
And
as
erst sayd,
That things
all
erst so far
That as shee
Where
may
that
ofi^
wallow,
was
left
were now so
far on.
away shee
gon.
is
And
sir,
God
if
ye
Love and
I will
th'
will stint
day
and avoyd
cherish this, as ye
all strife.
would
by God
A
my
life.
almightie,
JOHN HEYWOOD.
This geare comm'tk in pudding time^^
He
No
165
rightlie.
shee).
Short shooting
Ye mist
leeseth
your game, ye
may see,
your haste to
it.
I see,
sir,
But your
ye may
teeth
Though he
tell,
no greene
see
must water.
love not
to
cheese,
Not
for the
'
is in.
lost, till
it
In pudding time.
Formerly,
come
in
Who
1630.
An
takes
its
Trulie,
Lyly's Euphues.
am
was neither
THE PROVERBS OF
i66
Ye would
But abide
friend,
Snatching winth
Men
your mother
bid,
till
ye snatch
not, if
it
come at
it}^
ye were borne,
till
to morne.
And
and
such signes
in
profifring
Many
Kindly he
But
pretie tales
the
kist
lips
He
should beare
With good
it,
for that
it
is,
now
heavie wayd.
(sayd he to her),
'^
stile,
owne provanderP
&c.
'^
well enough.
Des
trois
Dames qui
il
leche.
trouvirent ttn
a7iel,
circa 1300.
Nicholas. Indeed,
in adversitie brings a
Coomes.
am for yee.
Do
yee heere
set
drawe,
fight, I
oft before
167
wise,
They
rose
it
to cleere
was, that
after noones.
by and
by,
lovingly.
Chapter X.
^HIS dinner thought he
long,
and straight
after that.
ill
content
all
was
spent.
And
am
mome.
Coomes. Where be your
to the next
tooles
Women
of Abingdon, 1599.
THE PROVERBS OF
i68
To
Determining
So
shall
it
this, if it
lye
lay whole
still,
will.
streight as she
And
Then was
it
proved
what
it
true, as this
was a
best,
locke,
clocke,
proverbe goth.
over,
At
The
divels
As
She was,
home
wood.
at
end of that
fray,
And
Till
left,
yOHN HEYWOOD.
It
hath been
First
said, neede
it,
169
it,
trot}
God wot
say, miserie
And
is
may
driven
be mother,
to
beg of another.
Till
Her
late
life,
now
husband, and
famine by
Till
Now
let
like, set
us note here.
him
care, where.
life,
together to remaine,
'
last twaine,
all
woe
to faile so.
where as he
trot.
Thus
It is
travelling,
my earthly portion
and
my lot.
The proverb says " Need makes the old wife trot."
A Merry Bill of an uncertaine Jottrney, by TAYLOR,
the
Besoin
Water
Poet.
Roman
THE PROVERBS OF
I70
Tooke her
And
him onely
she
in
would be
That
he
lightly
Her good he
laid her
up
laid
many
so
dififerd
up
waies,
so, lest
Thus
Which they
all,
or
Chapter
iORSOOTH,
it.
and more.
fore.
XI.
my
(said
it,
matter
friend), this
maketh bost
Of diminution,
Thwitten
That
to
my
me
these and
a mill post,
discouraged cleerely.
weddings, in
all things,
Though
is
confesse
In both
For here
some
lived
deny
except one
to proceed upon.
other, speed
and loved
that,
I,
(quoth
ill,
as
ye
tell,
full well.
I), I
should rave
my self have
sort,
shall
tother,
man
declare,
Since, before
I
That
171
care.
libertie.
With
your jeopardie.
all
And now
all
on each
part,
hartily
Of mine
Who that
sure
Although
And
In
'
to
am
I
authoritie he
of those twaine,
win a
all this
am
sped
And
he), I
woman
and
here,
may
if I
shall I
lose a
daunce.
none choose,
nought
loose.
man.
will I
than
.'
my lord. The
Cradle of Security,
Hit nail o' th' head. Impatient Poverty,
The Play of Four P's, Dives and Lazarus,
Lusty Juventus, and the Marriage of Wit and Wisdom.
Divers,
Sir
Thomas More.
THE PROVERBS OF
172
How
like a
First these
That
if I
follie
weathercock
Then thought
have
The
to have
this
never a whit, as
I cleere, I will
shall
caried
was
loth,
I since,
me away
might,
They both
hath
(quoth
wed none
new
of
them
of them.
one answere by
I),
wedded one
both.
letter
the better.
and your
asked while
selfe answere.
ere,
Or
In
I like
thus riches as
'
as povertie.
An
elliptical
An
early instance of
its
use occurs in a
better herynge.
Kynge John.
Again in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621 : Begin
where you will, you shall find them all alike, never a barrell the
better herring.
JOHN HEYWOOD.
I
my
Howbeit,
will.
my
I will
173
wit.
Or
for love, or
o:iely for
both
woo me
Shall
Although the
to
wed
not,
wed now
chiefe
for
one thing
As
is
enough,
Since enough
With
that one
For folke
*
say,
Enough
is
is
am
now
in
wedding be
as all in one
to lack
satisfied,
enough, (sayd
is
love,
may
move.
life,
wife.
(sayd he).
I),
here
I espie.
Here
by my hood.
as
may we
may be geast
as good as a feast*
as good as a feast.
an olde proverb
say ho.
He
And
1575.
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OF
&
34 George
IV. Bridge,
EDINBURGH.
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Poetical
Thomas
&
Works.
5s.
edited by
Blackwood
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