...snores. All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritchtng sh Y sprite, In the church-way pains to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecat's team,...

...all the mortal newlyweds, he chases away the screech owl of mortality: "The screech owl, screeching loud / Puts the wretch that lies in woe / In remembrance of a shroud" (MND 5.1.362-64). This reminds Harold F. Brooks of the similar owl in "The Phoenix and the Turtle":...

...snores All with weary task foredone. Now the wasted brands do glow Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance...the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, n° Every one lets forth his sprite In the churchway paths to glide. And we fairies, that do run By...

...snores. All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance...graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide. And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team,...

...or because we are seeing ghosts: Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance...graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite In the church-way paths to glide. (Vi. 361-8) There is no question, then, of putting the Dream...

...snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching fants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked...deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With livery one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By...

...hold we this solemnity In nightly revels and new jollity. They all exit. PUCK enters with a broom. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite In the churchway paths to glide; And we fairies that do run By the triple Hecate's team From...

...lion roars"; "the heavy ploughman snores, / All with weary task fordone"; "the screech-owl . . . / Puts the wretch that lies in woe / In remembrance of a shroud" (357, 359~6o, 362-64). Puck's invocation of night alludes to the heritage of the Fall and the burden...

...snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance...graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite In the churchway paths to glide; And we fairies that do run By the triple Hecate's team Prom...

...to make sure that the headmaster has truly left. He turns back to his fellow students.) STU. 1 . Now is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the churchway paths to glide; (Student 1 collects the composition books and puts them aside.)...