Note 143 — ACT I. SCENE I.
Reading edition
Virtue, if not in action, is a vice; And when we move not forward, we go backward.] This is a beautiful improvement on Horace:
Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ Celata virtus.
The last line of the text alludes to the Latin adage Non progredi est regredi.—Gifford.