WIST QuotationsA quotation from John Heywood (and a Happy New Year to all!)
Let the world slide, 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.
Be merry, friends!
John Heywood (1497?-1580?) English playwright and epigrammist
Ballad (1576), “Be Merry Friends,” st. 17
More about this quote: wist.info/heywood-john/11825/
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Heywood, John - Ballad (1576), "Be Merry Friends," st. 17 | WIST Quotations
Let the world slide, 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. Be merry, friends! Collected in John Payne Collier (ed.), A Book of Roxburghe Ballads (1847), which includes…
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