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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Collects Heywood's proverbs, epigrams, short poems, ballads, & songs, collating the many extant editions. Heywood was a dramatist and singer in several English royal courts, and seems to have been a particular favorite of Henry VIII. Though his work varied in its esteem among literary critics of various periods, most credit it with integrating proverbs into English literature. Reprint dated 1980, of the original 1956 University of Illinois edition, their Studies in Language and literature Vol. 41. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, base of spine bumped, minor spine slant. Text clean; xi, blank, 297 pages; introductions discussing Heywood's work and its reputation; notes. Size: Octavo.…