Epigrams appellare licet series libellorum ab Ioanne Heywood medio saeculo XVI scriptorum in quibus seriem proverbiorum et aphorismatum versibus Anglicis concatenavit, titulis variis divulgatorum:
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:
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