"As done. Perseverance, dear my lord it is."
"Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path."
This line would gain both in perspicuity and melody if we were to read 'but one.'
"And leave you hindmost."
As this line is short, and as further on there is a line with two superfluous feet, it is evident that there has been a misarrangement. I have, therefore, in my Edition, rearranged this and the following lines. I have there read, "Fallen in the first rank;" but it might be better, though less forcible, to read:—
"Fallen in first rank, lies there for pavement to."
"And give to dust that is a little gilt