Id., Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 2.
Still she retains
Her maiden gentleness, and oft at eve
Visits the herds along the twilight meadows,
Helping all urchin blasts and ill-luck signs
That the shrewd meddling elf delights to make.
Milton, Comus, 842.
Hereafter. This word, while it looks on to a future, always looks on to one more or less divided by an interval of time from the present. But it was often employed as equivalent to ‘from this time forth’ in our Elizabethan literature; it is so in the examples which follow.
Hereafter [ἀπ’ ἄρτι] ye shall see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man.—St. John i. 51. (A.V.)
We will establish our estate upon