| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| 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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1. An earlier instance occurs in Heywood, in his Dialogue on Wit and Folly, circa 1530. [back] |
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