sink or swim

Nay, the very Ostentation of the Thorn, is a Weakness, and I might have said a Vice too; for the Vanity Unhallows the very Virtue, especially where it is Accompany'd with Detraction.

This was not a new idea in the East. The Koreans had long confined the Japanese traders to the port of Fusan, and when the Japanese entered upon their period of seclusion both Dutch and Chinese traders were restricted to the single port of Nagasaki.

Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.