Quote#Time
There’s an experienced rebel, Time
Quote byThomas Flatman · 1635–1688
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Defiance", in Poems (1686).
English (original)
There’s an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There’s Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep’st thy crown, Th’usurper Death will make thee lay it down.
— Thomas Flatman
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