Possible Clues:

• Peer comes to that just after the start?
• Quite soon in the proceedings
• Rely on a run being in the first part of the programme?
• Peer over there before much time has elapsed
• Towards the beginning
• Relation of Lear enters a long time before breakfast?
• Toward the beginning
• In the first stage
• Spike at French city during the first part
• Peer that far off in the past, before much time passes