Anne Bradstreet

“ Childhood and Youth, the Many and Old age:
The first son unto phlegm, grandchild to water,
Unstable, supple, cold and moist's his nature
The second, frolic, claims his pedigree
From blood and air, for hot and moist is he. ”

“ Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime. ”