They say they have alwayes fiue or sixe hundred horsemen readie at an houres warning.

Come, Gallants, we waste time, the first Taverne we arrive at weel see the race of an houre-glasse.

In your house you haue a Warehouse which they call Godon, which is made of bricke to put your goods in, for oftentimes they take fire and burne in an houre foure or fiue hundred houses: so that if the Gordon [sicKTH] were not, you should bee in danger to haue all burned, if any winde should rise, at a trice.

This houre hath blasted such a hope As the Earth never teemd with nor the spring Gave up in smileing blosomes to the breath Of those sweet windes that whisper from the West A tale of triumph to the yeere.

one houre sith she is gone:

Zounds what foolish Canaanits were they to run in debt to their eyes for an houres sleepe sooner then they needed!

Hee'll promise any thing: I have seene him talke At the Church dore with his hat of to a Begger Almost an houre togeather, yet when he left him He gave him not a doyt.

Take the fleshly part of a Leg of Mutton stript from the fat and sinews, beat that well in a Morter with Pepper and Salt, and a little Onyon or Garlick water by it selfe, or with Herbs according to your taste, then make it up in flat cakes and let them be kept twelve houres betweene two Dishes before you use them, then fry them with butter in a frying Pan and serve them with the same butter, and you will find it a dish of savory meat.

'Tis not half an houres work, A Cupid and a fiddle, and the thing's done, But let's be handsome, shall's be Gods or Nymphs? Eust.

And (after six houres conference with the starres) Sleepes with old Erra Pater.