Possible Clues:

• "... __ the set of sun": "Macbeth"
• Two-way poetic preposition
• Before, in ballads
• Before, for a bard
• Poetic ''before''
• "... ___ he rode out of sight ..."
• Before (poetic)
• "... ___ I saw Elba"
• Two-way preposition
• In advance of