1593-1603 by Shakespeare 
Sonnet 59 

1	If there be nothing new, but that which is
2	Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled,
3	Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss
4	The second burden of a former child!
5	O that record could with a backward look
6	Even of five hundred courses of the sun
7	Show me your image in some antique book
8	Since mind at first in character was done,
9	That I might see what the old world could say
10	To this composèd wonder of your frame#
11	Whether we are mended or whe’er better they,
12	Or whether revolution be the same.
13	O, sure I am the wits of former days
14	To subjects worse have given admiring praise.