ADVENTURE.
Naught venture, naught have. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Abstract. T. TUSSER.
We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Julius Cæsar, Act iv. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Fierce warres, and faithful loves shall moralize my song.
Faërie Queene, Bk. I. Proem. E. SPENSER.
Send danger from the east unto the west,
So honor cross it from the north to south,
And let them grapple: O! the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
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By Heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap,
To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.
K. Henry IV., Pt. I. Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
A wild dedication of yourselves
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
Winter's Tale, Act iv. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.