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To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow. Go to—I will not hear of it—To-morrow! ’Tis a sharper, who stakes his penury Against thy plenty—who takes thy ready cash, And pays thee nought but wishes, hopes, and promises, The currency of idiots—injurious bankrupt, That gulls the easy creditor!—To-morrow! It is a period nowhere to be found In all the hoary registers of Time, Unless perchance in the fool’s calender. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor holds society With those who own it. No, my Horatio, ’Tis Fancy’s child, and folly is its father; Wrought of such stuff as dreams are, and as baseless As the fantastic visions of the evening.
To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow. Go to—I will not hear of it—To-morrow! ’Tis a sharper, who stakes his penury Against thy plenty—who takes thy ready cash, And pays thee nought but wishes, hopes, and promises, The currency of idiots—injurious bankrupt, That gulls the easy creditor!—To-morrow! It is a period nowhere to be found In all the hoary registers of Time, Unless perchance in the fool’s calender. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor holds society With those who own it. No, my Horatio, ’Tis Fancy’s child, and folly is its father; Wrought of such stuff as dreams are, and as baseless As the fantastic visions of the evening.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 611 · printed citation: Cotton · subject: TO-DAY—TO-MORROW
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