“Afore me! It is so very late,That we may call it early by and by.”

“I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I was up so early.”

“to early seen unknown...and known to late”

“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?”

“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.”

“And too soon Marred are those so early Made.”

“And then he drew a dial from his poke,And looking with lack-lustre eye,Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags:'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.”