KING OF FRANCE: For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees
Th’ inaudible and noiseless foot of time
Steals ere we can effect them.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5, sc. 3, l. 48ff (5.3.48-50) (1602?)
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