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Excerpt from The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood: Comprising a Dialogue of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue Concerning Marriages First Hundred Epigrams Three Hundred Epigrams on Three Hundred Proverbs the Fifth Hundred Epigrams a Sixth Hundred Epigrams Miscellanies Ballads Note-
Of mine acquaintance a certain young man (being a resorter to me now and than) Resorted lately, showing himself to be Desirous to talk at length alone with me. And, as we for this a meet place had won With this Old proverb this young man begun. Whoso that knew what would be dear, Should need be a merchant but one year. Though it, (quoth he), thing impossible be The full sequel Of present things to foresee, Yet doth this proverb provoke every man Politically, (as man possible can), In things to come after to cast eye before, TO cast out, or keep in, things for fore store; As the provision may seem most profitable, And the commodity most commendable. Into this consideration I am wrought By two things, which fortune to hands hath brought. Two women I know, of which twain the tone Is a maid Of ?owering age, a goodly one; Th'other a widow, who SO many years bears, That all her whiteness lieth in her white hairs. This maid hath friends rich, but riches hath she none, Nor none can her hands get to live upon. This widow is very rich, and her friends bare, And both these, for love, to wed with me fond are. [worse; And both would I wed, the better and the The tone for her person, the tother for her purse. [woo. They woo not my substance, but myself they Goods have I none and small good can I do.
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