The work is preserved in Flateyjarbók, from around 1390, and was probably composed a couple of decades earlier.

Other, unattributed, texts may have been composed earlier, in the late 7th century.

Rick started pacing the room, trying to recall the mental list of gift possibilities he'd composed earlier.

It was composed after 2 Plus 1's taxi accident four years earlier.

With great care she concentrated on Grafting the glyph she had composed earlier in the day.

The music that he had earlier composed for Queen Mary's funeral was performed during his as well.

He chose a program from the menu and typed a few lines that with great thought he had earlier composed.

Most of the piece was based on music he had composed earlier.

A hot-line message had been composed and transmitted five hours earlier.

The play was first published in 1661, though it is understood to have been composed some four decades earlier.