John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs.

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 Works
  • 2.1 Plays
  • 2.2 Verse
  • 2.3 Collections
• 3 Famous epigrams
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Life

He was born in or near London, but fled to mainland Europe to avoid religious persecution for his Roman Catholic faith and is believed to have died in Mechelen, Belgium. His son was the poet and translator Jasper Heywood, his daughter was Elizabeth Heywood, and his grandson was the poet and preacher John Donne.

Works

A partial list:

Plays

• The Mery Play betwene Johan Johan, the Husbande, Tyb, his Wyf, and Syr Jhan, the Preest
• The Mery Play between the Pardoner and the Frere, the Curate and Neybour Pratte (before 1533)
• The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler (c. 1530)
• The Play of the Wether, a new and mery interlude of all maner of Wethers (1533)
• The Play of Love (1533)
• A Dialogue on Wit and Folly
• The Four PP

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all thumbs
from John Heywood's Collection of 1546. [edit] Adjective. all thumbs ... Russian: руки как крюки (hands like hooks), руки из жопы растут (hands grow from arse) ...

all cats are grey in the dark
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, explaining why to take an older woman to bed[1], but appears in John Heywood's book of proverbs (1546) as 'When ...

don't look a gift horse in the mouth
From earlier given horse: "No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth." —John Heywood, 1546. Horses' gums recede as they age making the teeth ...

John Heywood (1497-1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. He fled England for the Low Countries to avoid persecution as a Catholic.

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• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
  • Be Merry Friends

• Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
  • Be Merry Friends

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