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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

137 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:137
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
 
Note 1.
An earlier instance occurs in Heywood, in his “Dialogue on Wit and Folly,” circa 1530. [back]