Would that it were possible to undo things done …
O God! O God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday
That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass,
To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.
— Thomas Heywood (1574?-1641), A Woman Killed with Kindness (Act 4, Sc. 6)
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