Love is noght oold as whan that it is newe.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk’s Tale. Griselda reproaches her husband Walter, Marquis of Saluzzo, with these words when he tells her to vacate his palace to make way for his new wife. When love is old it is not the same as when it is new, she tells him. Similar sentiments are expressed in the popular Irish ballad:
"For love is teasing and love is pleasing
And love is a pleasure when first it’s new
But as it grows older ach love grows colder
And fades away like the morning dew."
"For love is teasing and love is pleasing
And love is a pleasure when first it’s new
But as it grows older ach love grows colder
And fades away like the morning dew."