Prodigality: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
What will this come to? He commands us to provide, and give great gifts, And all out of an empty coffer; Nor will he know his purse; or yield me this, To show him what a beggar his heart is, Being of no power to make his wishes good; Eis promises fly so beyond his state, That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes For every word; he is so kind, that he now Pays interest for it— T. A. i. 2.