 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 2004 - 406 pages
...Hamlet's father, the officer Marcellus reflects on a Christmas legend: It faded on the crowing of a cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad. (1.1.138-42). This "legend" may have been entirely Shakespeare's invention. 14. Saint... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some [say] that ever ‘gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; 160 And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,... | |
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gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning 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 power to charm,... 
