...owl, To-whoo ; Tu-whit, to-whoo, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. W. SHA.KSPEAHE. SOME say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath...

...truth herein This present object made probation. •Harcellus. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath...

...the truth herein This present object made probation. Marcellus. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath...

...SHAKSPEKE : A BIOGRAPHY. This bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad, The nights are wholesome ; then no planets...charm : So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." * Surely it is the poet himself who adds, in the person of Horatio, "So have I heard, and do in part...

...birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singcth all night long : And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." " There's poetry ! " exclaimed Mr. Colebatch, looking up at the mask. " That's a cut above my tragedy...

...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 no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. .HaK^So I have heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks...

...scare away all evil things from infesting the hallowed hours : — " And then they say, no spirit dares stir abroad, The nights are wholesome ; then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." In the south-west of England, there exists a superstitious notion, that the oxen are to be found kneeling,...

...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 no planets...hallow'd and so gracious is the time. (Hamlet. Act I.) Advice to a Son going to travel. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act....

...called ' plygan,' or ' the crowing of the cock.' Shakespeare finely describes this old opinion :" — " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad : The nights are wholesome : then no planets strike ; No fairy takes ; no witch have power...

...eld, That scarce his loosed limbs he able was to wield. VOL. V.— 41 CHRISTMAS TIDE, BY SHAKSPEARE. SOME say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath...