"So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,— The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more."
— John Gay

January 1, 1970

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The What d' ye call it (1715). Comparable to: "The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a 'quart d'heure de Rabelais,'—that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy", Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13