There is a ripe season for every thing, and if you slip that or anticipate it, you dim the grace of the matter be it never so good. As we say by way of Proverb that an hasty birth brings forth blind whelps, so a good tale tumbled out before the time is ripe for it, is ungrateful to the hearer.
BISHOP HACKETT.
THE OLD BELLS RUNG TO A NEW TUNE.
If the bell have any sides the clapper will find 'em.
BEN JONSON.