Ere

Famous quotes containing the word ere:

    “Be he as he will, yet once ere night
    I will embrace him with a soldier’s arm
    That he shall shrink under my courtesy.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For, ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
    He hailed down oaths that he was only mine,
    And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
    So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)