ere now

"Would I not have taken him to a doctor ere now?"

It knew their names, too; had known them ere now.

"A question you should have asked ere now, do you not think?"

Long ere now our feet would have grown hard.

For born she must be, long ere now, for you to find.

I have been merry twice and once ere now.

"Were he alive we should have had word of him ere now," said he.

Yet ere now I have travelled this road without it."

I promise you your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now.

"We could have been finished and home ere now if the babe Agnes had not brought her puppy!"

"If he were capable of such things, he would have done so ere now.

Perhaps it would have come ere now, had I not been fated to guide thee.

But tell me, my son, why did you not show me this key ere now?"

"The soldiers should ha' come within the palisade, ere now."

If she were so powerful a witch, I'd ha' heard of her ere now."

I have fought both with him and against him ere now.'

"I could have sent you there ere now, had you not thwarted me."

Why came you not to me ere now?"

But for him I should long ere now have borne away the spoils of your honor."

The lower hinge must be white ere now.

That is the only reason you still live, when there were so many opportunities to kill you ere now."

The fault is not mine only that I have not ere now understood your purposes.

I should have made an end of my journeying ere now but that two days ago I met strange company.

"I had thought to see thee ere now.

Ere now the stranger lord, thy darling, is prisoner in her palace.