...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. HOR. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks...

...on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But look, the...

...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...nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes,2 nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Ho. So have I heard,...

...the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then,...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow 'd and so gracious is the time. HORATIO. So have I heard and do in part believe it.] But, look,...

...to the belief that : Ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Horatio's answer : So I have heard, and do in part believe it,...

...approach of this sacred festival: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night...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 to happiness,...

...and stars. "Remember Marcellus in the first act? About Christmas Eve? ". . . they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." "Except," said Alex, "after that things really went downhill in Denmark." "Never mind. I think this...

...birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome; then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time (Hamlet, 1, i, 158-164). SEVEN BELLS TO BETHLEHEM THE O ANTIPHONS COVER: A detail from Winter Landscape,...

...birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, i, 158-64 (c. 1603) 58 ICONOCLASM i The workman melteth a graven image,...

...is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Greek, Roman, Jew, and Christian all used the symbol of the cock. But its symbolic significance certainly...