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• We both be at our wittes end. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. viii
• Of a good beginning cometh a good end. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x
• Cut my cote after my cloth. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. viii
• I know on which side my bread is buttred. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. vii...
• Beware of, Had I wist. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ii
• While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. iii...
• An ill winde that bloweth no man to good. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ix...
• Beaten with his owne rod. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ii
• Better is halfe a lofe than no bread. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi