Tempus omnia terminat.
Whitney, 1586.
The longeſt daye, in time reſignes to nighte.
The greateſt oke, in time to duſte doth turne:
The Rauen dies, the Egle failes of flighte.
The Phœnix rare, in time her ſelfe doth burne.
The princelie stagge at lengthe his rave doth ronne.
And all muſt ende, that euer was begonne.
A sentiment this corresponding nearly with Hector’s words, in the Troilus and Cressida (act iv. sc. 5, l. 223, vol. vi. p. 230),—