No. 2.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1749-50.
Stare loco nescit, pereunt vestigia mille
Ante fugam, absentemque ferit gratis ungula campum.
Statius.
Th' impatient courser pants in every vein,
And pawing seems to beat the distant plain;
Hills, vales, and floods appear already crost,
And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost.
Pope.