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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.'
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce read more
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
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.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
