(519) A DAY IS NOT BEGUN TILL IT’S ENDED
Thanks to our PH correspondent Jonathan Mitchell QC for this erudite note.
In Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering, chapter IX http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/scott/walter/guy/chapter9.html there is this passage:
Mr. Bertram asked his lady one morning at breakfast whether this was not little Harry’s birthday.
Five years auld exactly