 | Washington Irving - Literary Collections - 1983 - 1126 pages
...feathery dames," was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...are wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Amidst the general call... | |
 | International Shakespeare Association. Congress, Muir, Kenneth - Drama - 1983 - 265 pages
...Marcellus, comments on the cock-crow in words which raise the convention to a wholly different plane: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long; And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes nor witch hath power... | |
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 211 pages
...mattin rings. The Christian symbolism of the cock is underlined as Marcellus goes on: Some say that even 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth...singeth all night long, And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 379 pages
...is banished; and Marcellus's christianizing expansion of this conjunction explicates his banishment: It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 138 pages
...erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation. MARCEL. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long; 160 I, I 44 I, I The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Cyrus Henry Hoy - Drama - 1996 - 101 pages
...in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein 155 This present object made probation. MAR. It faded...say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 160 And then, they say,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 296 pages
...spirit hies To his confine. And of the truth herein 155 This present object made probation. MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 160 n9ff The silent beats after Horatio's half-line exhortations in Q2 at 132 and 135 suggest an expectant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Reference - 1999 - 408 pages
Organized by topic, offers approximately three thousand familiar and little-known quotations from Shakespeare's plays and poems. | |
 | William Shakespeare, Jane Armstrong - Drama - 1999 - 408 pages
Jane Armstrongwas born and brought up in North London. She was commissioning editor for the publishers of the Arden Shakespeare, working on their literature list and founding ... | |
 | Gene Wolfe - Fiction - 2001 - 384 pages
...Deathless" as found in Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book, first published in 1890.] NO PLANETS STRIKE Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath... | |
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It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then... 
