Note 1174 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Tate's paraphrase from Simonides, Dryden's Miscellanies, vol. v. p. 55:
On life's wide ocean diversely launched out, Our minds alike are tossed on waves of doubt, Holding no steady course, or constant sail, But shift and tack with ev'ry veering gale.—Wakefield.