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A comedy was performed at the Elizabethan court in 1567-8 with the title Jack and Jill and the phrase was used twice by Shakespeare: in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which contains the line: " Jack shall have Jill ; Nought shall go ill " ( III: ii: 460-2 ) and in Love's Labour's Lost, which has the lines: " Our wooing doth not end like an old play ; Jack hath not Jill " ( V: ii: 874 – 5 ), suggesting that it was a phase that indicated a romantically attached couple, as in the proverb " A good Jack makes a good Jill ".
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