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Wait, prithee, wait!

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InferredFuller’s words — “…nt's putting off should make Mischance almost as heavy as a crime) — " Wait, prithee, wait ! this answer Lesbia threw Forth to her dove, and took no further heed; Her eye…” — point to Wait, prithee, wait!, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

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“(Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take That subtle power, the never-halting time.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p105

Inferred Fuller’s words — “…nt's putting off should make Mischance almost as heavy as a crime) — " Wait, prithee, wait ! this answer Lesbia threw Forth to her dove, and took no further heed; Her eye…” — point to Wait, prithee, wait!, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p105; page given is to the 1869 reprint.