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" And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,... "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes. To which ... - Page 1007
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1868 - 554 pages
...to speak when the cock crew. Hor. And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,...Awake the god of day; and at his warning, Whether hi sea or fire, in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine : and of the...
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The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of ...

William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - 1869 - 474 pages
...being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence. Ber. It was about to speak, when the cock crew. The cock, that is the trumpet to" the morn, Doth with...at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hie? To his confine : and of the truth hereur This present object...
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The birds of Shakespeare: critically examined, explained, and illustrated

James Edmund Harting - 1871 - 354 pages
...speak, when the cock crew ! Hor. And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,...at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant * and erring spirit hies To his confine : and of the truth herein, This present...
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Shakspeare Gems

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 344 pages
...started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding...at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. The Reverence paid to Christmas Time. Wherein...
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Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the North ...

Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 pages
...it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding...at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine : and of the truth herein This present object...
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Tragedy of Hamlet: With Notes, Extracts from the Old 'Historie of Hamblet ...

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 240 pages
...to speak when the cock crew. Eor. And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,...in earth or air,1 The extravagant and erring spirit hies3 To his confine : and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on...
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Masterpieces in English Literature, & Lessons in the English Language...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...superstitious belief, expressed in this stanza, is akin to that stated in Shakespeare as follows : "I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,...at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.1' — Hamlet, Act i., sc.l. So the ghost...
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Tragedies

William Shakespeare - 1876 - 706 pages
...slirill-sounding throat Awake the god of day ; and, at his warning, \Vhether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine:...made probation. MAR. It faded on the crowing of the cocli. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The...
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The New York Drama: A Choice Collection of Tragedies, Comedies ..., Volume 2

1876 - 394 pages
...it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth, with his lofty and shrill-sounding...at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,...
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Poems of Places: Scotland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 290 pages
...started like a gnilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding...at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein This present object...
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