Your marriage comes by destiny,
Your cuckoo sings by kind.”
All’s Well that Ends Well, Act i. Sc. 3.
This would appear to be only a new version of an old proverb, for in “Grange’s Garden,” 4to, 1577, we have—
“Content yourself as well as I,
Let reason rule your minde,
As cuckoldes come by destinie,
So cuckowes sing by kinde.”
CUCKOO SONGS.
If Shakespeare is to be believed, marriage is not the only thing that goes by destiny:—