Why Not Do It, Sir, To-Day?

"Why so I will, you noisy bird, This very day I'll advertise you, Perhaps some busy ones may prize you. A fine-tongu'd parrot as was ever heard, I'll word it thus--set forth all charms about you, And say no family should be without you."

Thus far a gentleman address'd a bird, Then to his friend: "An old procrastinator, Sir, I am: do you wonder that I hate her? Though she but seven words can say, Twenty and twenty times a day She interferes with all my dreams, My projects, plans, and airy schemes, Mocking my foible to my sorrow: I'll advertise this bird to-morrow."

To this the bird seven words did say: "Why not do it, Sir, to-day?"