Related Clues:

• 'Able was I ___ …'
• Browning's 'before'
• Before, to bsrds
• Poet's ''before''
• Byron's "before"
• Odist's 'before'
• Long lead-in
• Long beginning
• ''Able was I ___ I saw Elba''
• Before, to Shelley
• Formerly, old style
• In the time leading up to
• Earlier then
• Prefix with while
• Earlier, in dialect