Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise.

In this epigrammatic couplet, Heywood yokes two life-altering “ends” together—marriage and execution—to mock the idea that major turns in life are governed by fate rather than choice. The humor is deliberately bleak: “wedding” (socially celebrated) and “hanging” (socially condemned) are treated as parallel outcomes, each framed as something one “comes to” by destiny. The line reflects a common early-modern taste for proverbial wit that punctures romantic or moral certainty, suggesting that what society calls providence may simply be the unpredictable, sometimes arbitrary, course of events.