“Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again,
And all shall be well,”
refers to the popular proverb of olden times, says Staunton, signifying “all ended happily.” So, too, Biron says, in “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (v. 2):
“Our wooing doth not end like an old play;
Jack hath not Jill.”
It occurs in Skelton’s poem “Magnyfycence” (Dyce, ed. i. p. 234): “Jack shall have Gyl;” and in Heywood’s “Dialogue” (Sig. F. 3, 1598):
“Come, chat at hame, all is well, Jack shall have Gill.”
“Kindness will creep where it cannot go.” Thus, in the “Two Gentlemen of Verona” (iv. 2), Proteus tells Thurio how
“love
Will creep in service where it cannot go.”
There is a Scotch proverb, “Kindness will creep whar it mauna gang.”
“Let the world slide” (“Taming of the Shrew,” Induction, sc. i.).
“Let them laugh that win.” Othello says (iv. 1):