Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
And every grin, so merry, draws one out.
John Wolcot (1738-1819) English satirist (pseud. Peter Pindar)
Expostulatory Odes to a Great Duke and a Little Lord, Ode 15, ll. 5-6 (1789)
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