A Poetic Way of Describing the Passage of Time
Full thirty times has Phoebus' cart gone round Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbèd ground, And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen About the world have times twelve thirties been, Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands, Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600)
Notes
Thirty times has the sun gone around this globe, and thirty times twelve has the moon gone through its celestial cycle, since we fell in love and were united in marriage by Hymen, the god of marriage.
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