DELAY.
by Robert Herrick
BREAK off delay, since we but read of one
That ever prospered by cunctation.
Cunctation, delay : the word is suggested by the name
of Fabius Cunctator, the conqueror of the Carthaginians,
addressed by Virg. (Æn. vi. 846) as “ Unus qui nobis
cunctando restituis rem”.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 63.
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