“Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.”
Nicholas Udall Ralph Roister Doister
Christian Custance, Act IV, sc. viii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)
Proverbs (1546)
Variant: And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.
“Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.”
Nicholas Udall Ralph Roister Doister
Christian Custance, Act IV, sc. viii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh (29 January 1916)
1910s
Doris Fisher (1915–2003) American musician
Song You Always Hurt the One You Love
Joel Barlow (1754–1812) American diplomat
Canto 1: st. 1, lines 1–10
The Hasty-Pudding (1793)
Context: Despise it not, ye Bards to terror steel'd,
Who hurl'd your thunders round the epic field;
Nor ye who strain your midnight throats to sing
Joys that the vineyard and the still-house bring;
Or on some distant fair your notes employ,
And speak of raptures that you ne'er enjoy.
I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,
My morning incense, and my evening meal,
The sweets of Hasty-Pudding. Come, dear bowl,
Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul.
Ken Kern American writer
The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
Thomas Malory book Le Morte d'Arthur
Book XVIII, ch. 25
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
Context: Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
William Caxton book The Game and Playe of the Chesse
The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Bk. III (1474) http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/10672/73.html
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer
Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Corporate Bodies" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)