...like the " glow-worm," showed " the matin to be near." " 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...

...dames, » was thought by the cormnon people to announce the approach of this sacred festival: « Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning siogeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights...

...cock, чипе say, that ever 'gainst that season com» -Vherein our Saviours birth is celebrated. Phis bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then they say no «pint dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike. Vo fair}' takes, nor...

...wander after idle fires : &c. 432. Milton had Shakespeare in his head, Hamlet, act is 1. Some nil, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, t\ !'. But then they tay no spirit icalks abroad, &c. But the imitation is more immediately from the...

...insinuate a kind of religious veneration for that season. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our...bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, say they, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes,...

...faded on the crowing of the Cocke, Some say , that euer gainst that season comes, Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say , no spirite dare walke abroade, The nights are wholesome,then no planet frikes, No Fairie takes , nor Witch...

...faded on the crowing of the Cocke, Some say , that euer gainst that season comes, Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say , no spirite dare walke abroade, :I ' The nights are wholesome,then no planet frikes, '• "• No Fairie...

...cock28. 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...The nights are wholesome : then no planets strike, 38 ' And now the cocke, the morning's trumpeter, Play'd hunts-up for the day-stay to appear.' Drayton....

...: — Some say, that ever "gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's biith is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long • And then, they say, no spirit stirs abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planet strikes; No fairy takes, nor witch hath power...

...the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock28. 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...