 In the 19th century, a waste book entitled the "Promus of Formularies and Elegancies" was discovered.It contained 1,655 hand written proverbs, metaphors, aphorisms, salutations and other miscellany.Although some entries appear original, many are drawn from the Latin and Greek writers Seneca, Horace, Virgil, Ovid; John Heywood's "Proverbes" (1562); Michel de Montaigne's "Essays" (1575), and various other French, Italian and Spanish sources.