Epigrams (Heywood)
Epigrams appellare licet series libellorum ab Ioanne Heywood medio saeculo XVI scriptorum in quibus seriem proverbiorum et aphorismatum versibus Anglicis concatenavit, titulis variis divulgatorum: 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 De quo opere sic censuit Ioannes Florius: The Greekes and Latines thanke Erasmus, and our Englishmen make much of Heywood: for proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofes, the purities, the elegances, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. – Ioannes Florio, Second Fruites, "To the Reader" Graeci et Latini Erasmo gratias agunt, Heywoodum autem Angli nostri magnificant. Proverbia enim sunt medullae, proprietates, probationes, puritates, elegantiae cuiusque linguae; sunt sententiae communissimae necnon laudatissimae. His libellis multae locutiones Anglicae primum referuntur, inter quas: The moon is made of a green cheese