cumbersome quotes

To what a cumbersome unwieldiness And burdenous corpulence my love had grown, But that I did, to make it less, And keep it in proportion, Give it a diet, made it feed upon That which love worst endures, discretion.

-Donne,John
?1595^1605  'Love's Diet', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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