Robert Aytoun

It had been lethargy in me, not constancy, to love thee still.

Sir Robert Aytoun (1570–1638) was a Scottish poet.

Quotes

• When new desires had conquer'd thee
  And changed the object of thy will,
  It had been lethargy in me,
  ⁠Not constancy, to love thee still.
  • Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900/To an Inconstant One, c. 1600

• It's all one thing — both tend into one scope —
  To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
  The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
  • Sonnet on tobacco, c. 1600