E Martiale

Cras te victurum, cras dicis, posthume semper:
Dic mihi cras istud posthume quando venit?
Quam longe cras istud? ubi est? aut unde petendum?
Thou saist thou wilt to morrow live to morrow ever:
When will that morrow come, ah tell me? never.
How farr's that morrow? whence? where to be fetch'd?
What can the Parthians , or Armenians teach't?
What hath it Priams age? or Nestors years?
Ist to be bought? tell me what price it bears?
Thou say'st thou wil'st too morrow live, this day's too late;
Yesterdaies life, should this daies Antedate.
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