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"He who far off beholds another dancing,

Even one who dances best, and all the time

Hears not the music that he dances to,

Thinks him a madman, apprehending not

The law which moves his else eccentric action;

So he that's in himself insensible

Of love's sweet influence, misjudges him

Who moves according to love's melody;

And knowing not that all these sighs and tears,

Ejaculations and impatiences,

Are necessary changes of a measure

Which the divine musician plays, may call

The lover crazy, which he would not do,

Did he within his own heart hear the tune

Play'd by the great musician of the world."

They that lie down [i.e., fall sick] for love should rise for hunger

The presumption being that, if they had not been too well fed, they would not have been troubled with that disease. "Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes" (Latin).ssss1 "No love without bread and wine" (French).ssss1

Old pottage is sooner heated than new made.

An old flame is sooner revived than a new one kindled. "One always returns to one's first love" (French).ssss1 "True love never grows hoary" (Italian).ssss1