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PROCRASTINATION by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS

First Line: TOMORROW YOU WILL LIVE, YOU ALWAYS CRY
Last Line: TO DAY IT SELF'S TOO LATE, THE WISE LIV'D YESTERDAY.

To morrow you will Live, you always cry;
In what far Country does this morrow lye,
That 'tis so mighty long 'ere it arrive?
Beyond the Indies does this Morrow live?
'Tis so far fetcht this Morrow, that I fear
'Twill be both very Old and very Dear.
To morrow I will live, the Fool does say;
To Day it self's too Late, the wise liv'd Yesterday.



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