'Twas answer'd, that their senators were new, Foolish, and young, and such as nothing knew; Nature to youth hot rashness doth dispense, But with cold prudence age doth recompense.

It is the height of folly to stay and meet danger which you may by prudence avoid.'

" "I greatly regret, Sigriore, it should be so," resumed the baron, turning to the applicant with the consideration of one accustomed to season his refusals by a gracious manner; "but these watermen have their secret signs, by which, it would seem, they know the latest moment they may with prudence delay.

When desp'rate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

So much the public to your prudence owes, You think no labours long, for our repose.

The silly tale has angered me, but for prudence sake I kept silent.

When the splendid genius of Burke rose like a new sun into the sky, the times were happier, and nowhere in our literature does a noble prudence wear statelier robes than in the majestic compositions of Burke.