No haste but good, where wisdom makes the way, <br />For proof whereof behold the simple snail <br />(Who sees the soldier's carcass cast away, <br />With hot assault the Castle to assail) <br />By line and leisure climbs the wall, <br />And wins the turret's top more cunningly <br />Than doughty Dick, who lost his life and all <br />With hoisting up his head so hastily. <br />The swiftest bitch brings forth the blindest whelps; <br />The hottest Fevers coldest cramps ensue; <br />The nakedest need hath ever latest helps. <br />With Nevil then I find this proverb true, <br />That Haste makes waste, and therefore still I say, <br />No haste but good, where wisdom makes the way.<br /><br />George Gascoigne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-vii-11/
