A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.
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In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, “Four o’ the clock it was, to make a guess; / Eleven foot long, or little more or less, / My shadow was, as at that time and place, / Measuring feet by taking in this case / My height as six.”
There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC
