Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Source: Never Weather-beaten Sail, from Two Books of Airs, Divine and Moral Songs, c. 1613.
-- Thomas Campion, (Feb 12 1567-1620), English poet, composer, physician; He was a musical and literary theorist who was one of the outstanding songwriters of the English lutenist school of 16th and early 17th centuries.