It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
Non temere est quod corvos cantat mihi nunc ab laeva manu
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Aulularia, line 624 (Act iv, sc. 3, 1); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Referenced in "That raven on yon left-hand oak/(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)/Bodes me no good", John Gay, Fables, Part I, The Farmer’s Wife and the Raven.