hatched (adj.)

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,

And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv.

Dire combustion and confused events

New hatch'd to the woful time.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3.

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