The inaudible and noiseless foot of time

From All’s Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare.  Act V. Scene III.

King.  I am not a day of season,

For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail

In me at once; but to the brightest beams

Distracted clouds give way: so stand thou forth;

The time is fair again.        

  Bertram.        My high-repented blames,

Dear sovereign, pardon to me.

  King.        All is whole;

Not one word more of the consumed time.

Let’s take the instant by the forward top,       

For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees

The inaudible and noiseless foot of time

Steals ere we can effect them.