Epigrams (Heywood)

Ioannes 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

Bibliographia

• J. S. Farmer, ed., 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-book and word-lists. Londinii, 1906 Textus apud archive.org

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