Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.

Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.

Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.

Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

Let all live as they would die.

Let all live as they would die.

As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
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As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love there is no lack," thus I begin;
"Fair words make fools," replieth he again;
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;
"A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";
"Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";
"Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.
And having thus awhile each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

He that feares death lives not.

He that feares death lives not.

All powerful is the rule of fashion.

All powerful is the rule of fashion.