It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Bio: James Bramston, satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics, in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste, in imitation of Alexander Pope.
