Michael Drayton (Майкл Дрейтон)

Sonnet 59. As Love and I

As Love and I, late harbor'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," quoth he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labor is light where Love," quoth I, "doth pay";
Saith he, "Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
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.

1. Sonnet 24. I Hear Some Say
2. Sonnet 39. Some, when in Rhyme They of their Loves do Tell
3. Roc
4. Sonnet 16. Mongst all the Creatures in this Spacious Round
5. Sonnet 28. To Such as Say thy Love I Overprize

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