John Heywood Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1497 - 1580
Birthday: 1497
Death: 1580
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
source: John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”
topic: Clerks, Forget, Priests, Parish, Old Proverb, Parish Priest
