Smart lad to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay.

I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed, coming up the drive.

However they dined very early, for the winter dusk fell betimes at this season ….

[O]ne prayed God right heartily aloud that He would send them betimes a knight that durst convoy them through this strait pass.

Reproving betimes with sharpness...and afterward showing forth an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved[…]

Betimes

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