Note 77 — SCENE V.—A Room at Old Ford.
Reading edition
Herrick, who was a goldsmith’s apprentice in London during the time when this play was performed, seems to have appropriated these words of Eyre’s, and turned them into rhyme in these lines:—
“Let’s now take our time, While we’re in our prime, And old, old age is afar off; For the evil, evil days, Will come on apace, Before we can be aware of.”