Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song.
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste.

'Love me little, love me long', supposed 16th-century ballad actually written by Collier using proverbial first line (see proverbs); in John Payne Collier (ed.) Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company of works entered for publication between...1557 and 1570 (1848) vol. 1