“But time irreparable hasts away.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.”
The Sweet-Scented Miser, line 98.
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