Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him
How I would think of him, at certain hours
Such thoughts and such; - or ere I could
Give him that parting kiss, which I had set
Betwixt two charming words - comes in my father.
SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline.
Grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours with Time’s deformed hand
Have written strange defeatures o’er my face.
Comedy of Errors.