...fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud Puts the wretch that lies to that. SHYLOCK. Antonio is a good man. BASSANIO. Have you heard any imputation to the contrary? livery one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By...

...tradition. But it does not always require the powers of a magician. In A Midsummer Night s Dream, Puck says, "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" (V, i, 37 1 -74); cf. his earlier reference to this tradition...