Where in Shakespeare does the phrase "gang your gait" occur? Found as
an example in Johnson's dictionary tenth edition 1792

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 29 Apr 2004 11:39 PDT

According to this Shakespeare concordance, the word "gang" does not
appear in Shakespeare:

http://www.languid.org/cgi-bin/shakespeare

Here's a similar phrase, from "King Lear":

"Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk pass."

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/shakespeare/plays/4346.html

Could "go your gait" be the phrase you're seeking?

"O folk, and do ye gang your gait for you be fifty riders and I be
alone and singlehanded and how shall one contend in fight with half an
hundred?"

1001 Arabian Night's
THE MERCHANT?S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK. 
http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Sn_5/15tale17.htm

Interestingly, for gang Wordreference.com gives as part of its etymology,

gang: verb  (Scot)  to go
[ETYMOLOGY: Old English gangan - to go]

http://www.wordreference.com/english/definition.asp?en=gang

answerfinder-ga

In Swedish the word 'GÅNG' means to walk and the word originates from
the days of the vikings

"Gang thy gait" appears twice in Ben Jonson's "The Sad Shepherd", a
play written approximately twenty years after Shakespeare's death (and
published in the following folio approximately fifty-five additional
years later):

"The Sad Shepherd" [search in page for "gait"]
The Holloway Pages [Ben Johnson Page]
http://www.hollowaypages.com/jonson1692shepherd.htm

"Gang" is Scottish for "go": "The best laid plans o' mice and men /
gang aft agley" - Robert Burns