1546 - Heywood, John - Dialogue (2)

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.

Allusion

Men say, he may ill runne that cannot goe,
And your gaine without your stocke runneth even so.
For what is a workman without his tooles?
Tales of Robin Hood are good for fooles.

Source notes

Italic text as in printed source.

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88, see p. 274.

Editions

• Heywood, John. A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue, compacte in a matter concernyng two maner of mariages (London, [1550]). Not seen.
• Heywood, John. A dialogue conteining the nomber in effeet of all the prouerbs in the Englishe tounge, compact in a matter concernynge two maner of mariages (London, 1556). Not seen.
• Heywood, John. A dialogue, co[n]teyninge the number in effecte of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tunge, co[m]pact in a matter (London, 1561). Not seen.
• Heywood, John. Iohn Heywoodes woorkes (London, 1562). Not seen.
• Heywood, John. Iohn Heywoodes woorkes (London, 1566). Not seen.
• Heywood, John; Sharman, Julian, ed. The Proverbs of John Heywood. Being the "Proverbes of that Author printed 1546 (London, 1874); p. 159.
• Heywood, John. Iohn Heywoodes vvoorkes (London, [1577]). Not seen.
• Heywood, John; Farmer, John S, ed. A Dialogue of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue concerning Marriage (London, 1906), p. 94, and see p. 191 (modernized spelling).
• Heywood, John; Farmer, John S., ed. The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood (Early English Dramatists) (London, 1906), p. 94 (modernized spelling).

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