<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cantab</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With two spurs or one, and no great matter which,<br>Boots bought, or boots borrow'd, a whip or a switch,<br>Five shillings or less for the hire of his beast,<br>Paid part into hand;--you must wait for the rest.<br>Thus equipt, Academicus climbs up his horse,<br>And out they both sally for better or worse;<br>His heart void of fear, and as light as a feather;<br>And in violent haste to go not knowing whither.<br>Through the fields and the towns; (see!) he scampers along:<br>And is look’d at and laugh'd at by old and by young.<br>Til, at length overspent, and his sides smear'd with blood,<br>Down tumbles his horse, man and all in the mud.<br>In a wagon or chaise, shall he finish his route?<br>Oh! scandalous fate! he must do it on foot.<br>Young gentlemen, hear!--I am older than you;<br>The advice that I give I have proved to be true;<br>Wherever your journey may be, never doubt it,<br>The faster you ride, you’re the longer about it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537854" data-title="The Cantab de William Cowper" data-description="With two spurs or one, and no great matter which, Boots bought, or boots borrow'd, a whip or a switch, Five shillings or less for the hire of his beast, Paid part into hand;--you must wait for the rest. Thus equipt, Academicus climbs up his horse,..."></div> </div> </div>

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