Lines on "Woman's Will."

Many of your readers will have heard quoted the following stanza, or something like it:— "The man's a fool who strives by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will; For if she will, she will you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't." I have heard these lines confidently attributed to Shakspeare, Byron, &c. by persons unable to verify the quotation, when challenged so to do. I can point out where the first two lines may be found with some variation. *In The Adventures of Five Hours*, a comedy translated from the Spanish of Calderon, by Samuel Tuke, an…