George Gascoigne

Here you will find the Poem Sonnet VI of poet George Gascoigne

Sonnet VI

For why the gains doth seldom quit the charge: 
And so say I by proof too dearly bought, 
My haste made waste; my brave and brainsick barge 
Did float too fast to catch a thing of naught. 
With leisure, measure, mean, and many moe 
I mought have kept a chair of quiet state. 
But hasty heads cannot be settled so, 
Till crooked Fortune gave a crabbed mate. 
As busy brains must beat on tickle toys, 
As rash invention breeds a raw devise, 
So sudden falls do hinder hasty joys; 
And as swift baits do fleetest fish entice, 
So haste makes waste, and therefore now I say, 
No haste but good, where wisdom makes the way.