So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.


Poems on several occasions. By Mr. John Gay (ed. 1729)


So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.