Ere

Famous quotes containing the word ere:

    “Who ere shee bee,
    That not impossible shee
    That shall command my heart and mee;”
    —Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)

    “Go, smiling souls, your new-built cages break,
    In heaven you’ll learn to sing, ere here to speak,
    Nor let the milky fonts that bathe your thirst
    Be your delay;
    The place that calls you hence is, at the worst,
    Milk all the way.”
    —Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)

    “In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
    A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
    The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)