Related Clues:

• It might come before long
• '___ Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes' (Dunbar poem)
• Quaint preposition
• "... __ the set of sun": "Macbeth"
• Long intro
• Prior, to poets
• Homonym for air
• 'Blood hath been shed ___ now': Macbeth
• "... __ those shoes were old": "Hamlet"
• Byronian "before"
• Poetic ''before''
• Middle of a Napoleonic palindrome
• Preceding, poetically
• ''Able was I ___ ...''
• Bard's "prior to"