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A dialogue conteynyng the number of the effectuall prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, compact in a matter concernynge two maner of maryages. With one hundred of Epigrammes: and three hundred of Epigrammes upon three hundred prouerbes: and a fifth hundred of Epigrammes. Whereunto are now newly added a syxt hundred of Epigrams by the sayde John Heywood

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Of wrestlyng. 41.

Where we wrestled by couples, we wrestle alone:
And shall, tyll tyme our shakled breeches be gone.
In steppyng and strydyng it is a wunder,
How we wrestle to get our legges a sunder.