<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472300" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Part Of A Prologue Written And Spoken By The POet Laberius A Roman Knight, Whom Caesar Forced Upon The Stage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PRESERVED BY MACROBIUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHAT! no way left to shun th' inglorious stage,<br>And save from infamy my sinking age!<br>Scarce half alive, oppress'd with many a year,<br>What in the name of dotage drives me here?<br>A time there was, when glory was my guide, <br>Nor force nor fraud could turn my steps aside;<br>Unaw'd by pow'r, and unappall'd by fear,<br>With honest thrift I held my honour dear;<br>But this vile hour disperses all my store,<br>And all my hoard of honour is no more. <br>For ah! too partial to my life's decline,<br>Caesar persuades, submission must be mine;<br>Him I obey, whom heaven itself obeys,<br>Hopeless of pleasing, yet inclin'd to please.<br>Here then at once, I welcome every shame, <br>And cancel at threescore a life of fame;<br>No more my titles shall my children tell,<br>The old buffoon will fit my name as well;<br>This day beyond its term my fate extends,<br>For life is ended when our honour ends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472300" data-title="Part Of A Prologue Written And Spoken By The POet Laberius A Roman Knight, Whom Caesar Forced Upon The Stage" data-description="PRESERVED BY MACROBIUS. WHAT! no way left to shun th' inglorious stage, And save from infamy my sinking age! Scarce half alive, oppress'd with many a year, What in the name of dotage drives me here? A time there was, when glory was my guide, Nor..."></div> </div> </div>

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