 | William Shakespeare - 1788
...vour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, 530 Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant wayj For honour travels in a streight so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done :• Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep... | |
 | 1902
...this, from the poetical viewpoint, was of small consequence. The Shakespearian Ulysses avers that 1 to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.' The Tennysonian Ulysses exclaims : — ' How dull it is to pause, to make^an end, To rust unburnish'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807
...which are As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a streicht so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807
...devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
....',>.< As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord. Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep... | |
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To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one... 
