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• You stand in your owne light. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. iv
• It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh.
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• She frieth in her owne grease. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi
• Beware of, Had I wist. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ii
• All thing is the woorse for the wearing. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. i
• Good to be merie and wise. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ii
• Look ere ye leape. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ii