(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