Fond Lunatick forbear, why do'st thou sue <br />For thy affections pay e're it is due? <br />Loves fruits are legal use; and therefore may <br />Be onely taken on the marriage day. <br />Who for this interest too early call, <br />By that exaction lose the Principall. <br />Then gather not those immature delights, <br />Untill their riper Autumn thee invites. <br />He that abortive Corn cuts off his ground, <br />No Husband but a Ravisher is found: <br />So those that reap their love before they wed, <br />Do in effect but Cuckold their own Bed.<br /><br />Henry King<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/loves-harvest/
