"Cometh the hour, cometh the man"

[occam]

I recently heard this phrase ("Cometh the hour, cometh the man"),
uttered by one of the characters in the Ridley Scott film 'Robin Hood'.
The story is set at "the turn of the 12th century"

I assumed it was out of place, because I (wrongly) thought it was
something attributed to Shakespeare, like a lot of catchy phrases.

I looked around the web, but the search was inconclusive. Shakespeare it
was not. The Bible comes close, but no coconut.

Any theories?

[bert]

I found a fragment of Latin "hora venit, homo non venit"
or "The hour has come, but the man has not come", but
in an obscure context. Some scholar in the Dark Ages
may have popularised its inverse.

[spains...@gmail.com]

Eugine O'Niell's "The Iceman Cometh" is 1939. Maybe "cometh" was
applied to Churchill? The right man in the right place at the right time.