A Proverbial Conversation
Beauties of English Index
A Proverbial Conversation :
As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entestain :
"In love there is no back': thus I begin :
''Fair words make fools," replieth he again :
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I :
“As well," said he, "too forward as too slow" :
''Fortune assists the boldest," I reply :
“A hasty man," quoth he, ''ne'er wanted woe":
''Labour is light where I love", quoth I, "doth pay":
Saith he, "Light burden's heavy, if farborne":
Quoth I, The main lost. Cast the by away":
"Y' have spun a fair thread", he replies in scorn.
And having thus a while each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.
By Michael Drayton : Proverbs
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