"For if it erst was well, tho was it bet
A thousand folde, this nedeth it not require
Ago was euery sorowe and euery fere."
Troylus, boke 3, p. 2.
"Of such examples as I finde
Upon this point of tyme agone
I thinke for to tellen one."
Gower, lib. 5, p. 1.
"Which is no more than has been done
By knights for ladies, long agone."
Hudibras.
"Twenty years agone."
Tillotson's sermon.
"Are all the go."
Knickerbocker.