John Heywood

Of an Old Wooer

“Lady, I love you, in way you to wed:
But mine age with your youth disagreeth so
That, if I speak, I think not to be sped.”
“Your age and your suit is no whit your foe;
To your years many you have many mo,
We would wed the sooner by years; showing plain
That I should the sooner be unwed again.”