So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
William ShakespeareUnless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
William Shakespeare