Part 8 — PRUDENCE.
Reading edition
"Bide your time."—Rebel Song.
Bide your time—bide your time! Patience is the true sublime. Heroes, bottle up your tears; Wait for ten, or ten score, years. Shrink from blows, but rage in rhyme: Bide your time—bide your time! Bide your time—bide your time! Snakes are safest in their slime. Sages look before they leap; Heroes, to your hovels creep. Christmas loves pantomime: Bide your time—bide your time! Bide your time—bide your time! "Shoulder arms"—but never prime. Keep your skins from Saxon lead; Plunder paupers for your bread. Popish begging is no crime: Bide your time—bide your time!
[Greek: Aion.]