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):

"So, so, so, so:--they laugh that win."

On the other hand, the French say, "Marchand qui perd ne peut rire."

"Like will to like, as the devil said to the collier." With this we may
compare the following passage in "Twelfth Night" (iii. 4): "What, man!
'tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang him, foul
collier!"--collier having been, in Shakespeare's day, a term of the
highest reproach.

"Losers have leave to talk." Titus Andronicus (iii. 1) says:

"Then give me leave, for losers will have leave
To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues."

"Maids say nay, and take." So Julia, in the "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
(i. 2), says:

"Since maids, in modesty, say 'No' to that
Which they would have the profferer construe 'Ay.'"

In "The Passionate Pilgrim" we read:

"Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for nought?"

"Make hay while the sun shines." King Edward, in "3 Henry VI." (iv. 8),
alludes to this proverb:

"The sun shines hot; and, if we use delay,
Cold, biting winter mars our hop'd-for hay."

The above proverb is peculiar to England, and, as Trench remarks, could
have its birth only under such variable skies as ours.

"Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow." So, in "2 Henry
IV." (iii. 2), Justice Shallow, says Falstaff, "talks as familiarly of
John o' Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him; and I'll be sworn
a' never saw him but once in the Tilt-yard,--and then he burst his head,
for crowding among the marshal's men."

"Marriage and hanging go by destiny."[883] This proverb is the popular
creed respecting marriage, and, under a variety of forms, is found in
different countries. Thus, in "Merchant of Venice" (ii. 9), Nerissa
says:

"The ancient saying is no heresy,--
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."