Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Or Ever

Ere ever. (Saxon, aer, before.)

“Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio.”

Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 2.

“Dying or ere they sicken.”

Macbeth, iv. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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