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Where love fails we espy all faults.

Faults are thick where love is thin.

Hot love is soon cold.

Love me little, love me long.

Love of lads and fire of chats are soon in and soon out.

Chats, i.e., chips.

Lads' love's a busk of broom, hot a while and soon done.

Love is never without jealousy.

"He that is not jealous is not in love," says St. Augustin;ssss1 but that depends not only upon the disposition of the lover, but upon the point arrived at in the history of his love. Doubts and fears are excusable in one who has not yet had assurance that his passion is returned, but afterwards "Love expels jealousy" (French),ssss1 or, at least, it ought to do so. "Love demands faith, and faith steadfastness" (Italian);ssss1 but too often "Love gives for guerdon jealousy and broken faith" (Italian).ssss1 It is an Italian woman's belief that "It is better to have a husband without love than with jealousy."ssss1

No folly to being in love.

"To love and to be wise is impossible" (Spanish);ssss1 or, as an antique French proverb says, the two things have not the same abode.ssss1 This is the creed of those who have not themselves been lovers. As Calderon sings, in lines admirably rendered by Mr. Fitzgerald,—