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• Prior to, poetically [Subscribe to the AVCX at avxwords.com]
• Sounds like E's over regiment from before
• Poetic "prior"
• You might have seen it before now
• Present, Cockney-style
• Prior, prior to now
• Poet's palindromic preposition
• 'Inconstancy falls off ___ it begins': Shak
• Before, to Chaucer
• Wordsworth's ''__ With Cold Beads of Midnight Dew''
• ''Catch, __ she change . . .'' Pope
• Previously, in old usage
• 'Listen, ___ the sound be fled': Longfellow
• It may come before a "while"
• "Able was I ___ I ..."