 For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And...  Notes and Queries - Seite 2681859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Henry Thorne - 1902
...aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost; Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, Overrun and trampled on For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest... | |
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...Like to an entered tide, they all rush by And leave you hindmost : Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'errun and trampled on : then what they do in present, Tho* less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours ; For time is like... | |
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