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Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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.'
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?
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.
