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  • Each petty hand
    Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
    Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
    His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
    What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
    Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
    What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

    Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188