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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
