OF DISPATCH.                            147

urgent or the utility evident, and well to beware that
it be the reformation that draweth on the change,
and not the desire of change that pretendeth the
reformation. And, lastly, that the novelty, though
it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect; and, as
the Scripture saith, " That we make a stand upon
the ancient way, and then look about us and dis¬
cover what is the straight and right way, and so to
walk in it/^
 

XXV,

OF DISPA TCH.

Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous
things to business that can be. It is like that which
the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion,
which is sure to fill the body full of crudities and
secret seeds of diseases. Therefore, measure not
dispatch by the times of sitting, but by the advance¬
ment of the business. And as in races, it is not the
large stride or high lift that makes the speed, so \Xi