It's been done before;


FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY
(W S Gilbert)


If you go in
You're sure to win
Yours will be the charming maidie:
Be your law
The ancient saw,
'Faint heart never won fair lady!'

Faint heart never won fair lady !
Every journey has an end —
When at the worst affairs will mend —
Dark the dawn when day is nigh —
Hustle your horse and don't say die !

He who shies
At such a prize
Is not worth a maravedi,
Be so kind
To bear in mind—
Faint heart never won fair lady!

Faint heart never won fair lady!
While the sun shines make your hay —
Where a will is, there's a way —
Beard the lion in his lair —
None but the brave deserve the fair!

I'll take heart
And make a start —
Though I fear the prospect's shady —
Much I'd spend
To gain my end —
Faint heart never won fair lady!

Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win —
Blood is thick, but water's thin —
In for a penny, in for a pound —
It's Love that makes the world go round!

Notes:
from the operetta "Iolanthe (or The Princess and the Peri)
"Maravadi": an obsolete Spanish copper coin of little value

NP



Nigel