As Love and I, late harbourd 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 (quoth he) neer wanted woe;
Labour is light, where love (quoth I) doth pay,
(Saith he) light burthens heavy, if far born;
(Quoth I) the main lost, cast the bye away;
You 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.
"As Love and I, late harbour'd in one inn"
written byMichael Drayton
© Michael Drayton