Come Gentlemen, seize the moment, take the tide and sail into Mary's good books, we seek not treasure, mere dross will suffice. Would you risk losing your ventures? Heaven forfend that Christmas morn dawn and your ventures no where in sight. Bold Sir Robin while far away on the billow finds time to cast a bottle upon a stormy sea and leave it's fate to wind and tide, with full hope that it's message, contained within, will reach the shore of BHP and thus publication herewith.There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
Jacques; When Will is forgot by men and history, I have no doubt that these words of whit and wisdom will remain in the annals and minds of future generations.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving