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.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Be Merry Friends.

Let the world slide.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1.

Let the world slide.

Beaumont And Fletcher: Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 2.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,

And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 198.