[…]and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared. 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:
Old Klas used often to shake his head at him and say, "John! John! what are you about? The spade and sithe will be your sceptre and crown, and your bride will wear a garland of rosemary and a gown of striped drill." 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 179:
Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his sithe, had much outgrown their original proportions;... 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 7:
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sithe en · VERB · etymology 1
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/saɪð/
Etymology
From the Anglo-Saxon siġþe meaning scythe.
The spelling with was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).
Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith: 1561, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, act 1, scene 2, page 13: