17 February 2005 - the new quiz

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2005 : 17 February 2005

Be not the first by whom the new is tried:

A. Wait until it’s fully cut-and-dried.
B. Hold off till you’re sure that no one died.
C. But claim you were and write the field guide.
D. We can all try at once and not collide.

clue:

Be not the first by whom the new are tried
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
— Alexander Pope

give me a clue so sweet and true