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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.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
“Be Merry Friends”

Nought venture, nought have.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
A Dialogue Containing the Number of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue, 1.11 (1562)
More commonly remembered, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

Haste maketh waste.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
A Dialogue Containing the Number of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue, 1.2 (1562)

By hooke or crooke.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbes, Part 1, ch. 11
The phrase most likely derives from English tenant rights to gather firewood "by hook or by crook" -- as much loose timber as could be pulled down from branches by a (shepherd's) crook, or cut with from underbrush by a  (pruning) billhook. The phrase first appears in the 14th Century.

Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbes, Part 1, ch. 11

It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbes, Part 1, ch. 9

Enough is as good as a feast.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbes, Part 2, ch. 11

Many hands make light warke.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbes, Part 2, ch. 5

Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbes, Part 2, ch. 9

And while I at length debate and beat the bush,
There shall step in other men and catch the birds.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbs (1546)

When the sky falleth we shall have larks.

[When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.]

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbs, Part 1, ch. 4 (1546)

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbs, Part 1, ch. 9 (1546)

This hitteth the nail on the head.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbs, Part 2, ch. 11 (1546)

Love me, love my dog.

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbs, Part 2, ch. 9 (1546)
Earlier noted as a common proverb by Bernard of Clairvaux in the 11th Century: "Qui me amat, amet et canem meum [Who loves me will love my dog also] in Sermo Primus.

Would ye both eat your cake, and have your cake?

John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Proverbs, Part 2, ch. 9 (1546)