An idle fit for fond and reckless boys,

Or else for men deprived of common sense.

'Twixt Lunacy and Love, these odds appear;

Th' one makes fools, monthly; th' other, all the year.

XXVIII.

While season served to sow, my plough stood still;

My graffs unset, when other's trees did bloom.

I spent the Spring in sloth, and slept my fill;

But never thought of Winter's cold to come;

Till Spring was past, the Summer well nigh gone;