“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 923
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“1185. Count not your Chickens before they be hatch'd.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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