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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

227 George Peele 1558?-1597? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:227
AUTHOR:George Peele (1558?–1597?)
QUOTATION:His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
  O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth ’gainst time and age hath ever spurned,
  But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.
ATTRIBUTION:Sonnet. Polyhymnia.