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“let the world slide”
Proverb
Act Introduction,
Scene 1
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An explanation of the phrase “let the world slide” in Introduction 1 of myShakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Hostess

A pair of stocks, you rogue!    

Sly

You’re a baggage, the Slys are no rogues. Look in the     
chronicles, we came in with Richard Conqueror.     
Therefore, paucas pallabris, let the world slide. Sessa!     

Sly is quoting from a well known proverbial poem:

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?