“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)
“Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.”
— 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.
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