Propitious smile, and vanish ev’ry doubt!
The Mirror. February 8, 1823.
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The Debtor’s Soliloquy.
After Stocktaking.
To pay, or not to pay, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the man to suffer
The duns and threats of overpressing tradesmen,
Or to take arms against a sea of bills,
And, by compounding, end them? To fail, to owe
No more,—and by that act to say we end