betimes

ajoissa, aikaisin puhekieltä In good season or time; early, especially in the morning.
1896, w:A. E. Houseman|A. E. Houseman, "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad,

Smart lad to slip betimes away

From fields where glory does not stay.

I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed, coming up the drive.

However they dined very early, for the winter dusk fell betimes at this season ....

One prayed God right heartily aloud that He would send them betimes a knight that durst convoy them through this strait pass.

Reproving betimes with sharpness...and afterward showing forth an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved...