John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
72 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 72 |
| AUTHOR: | John Heywood (1497?–1580?) |
| QUOTATION: | Let the world slide, 1 let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can’t pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Be Merry Friends. |
| Note 1. Let the world slide.—Towneley Mysteries, p. 101 (1420). William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, induc. 1. Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money, act v. sc. 2. [back] |