 | William Shakespeare - 1803
...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 ;...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed - 1804
...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;...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on: Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805
...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;...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805
...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;...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806
...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 ;...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807
...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...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, • Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
...way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; Tor emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809
...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;...rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear," O'er-run* and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811
...ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past: which arc devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright:...hindmost; — Or, like a gallant horse, fallen in first ranlr, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, 176 TROILUS AND Act III. O'er-ru» and trampled on:... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Henry Fuseli - 1811
...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 ;...first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop... | |
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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, the path : For emulation hath a thousand... 
