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" Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping... "
The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ... - Page 336
by William Shakespeare - 1883
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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...nightly revels and new jollity. ( THEY exit. Enter PUCK with a broom.) PUCK. Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman...fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is...
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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...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...forth his sprite In the church-way paths to glide. (Vi. 361-8) There is no question, then, of putting the Dream audience, like that of 'Pyramus and Thisbe,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...solemnity In nightly revels and new jollity. [Exeunt. Enter PUCK. PUCK. Now the hungry lion roars, screech-owl, screeching loud Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is...
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Shakespeare in Opera, Ballet, Orchestral Music, and Song: An Introduction to ...

Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...solemnity In nightly revels and new jollity. [All exit. Puck enters.] Puck: Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon, Whilst the heavy ploughman...fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 60 pages
...blessing oj these weddings, banishing all the threats to the lovers' happiness. Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman...fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. Hermia—MND IILii Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman...fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Puck —...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...solemnity In nightly revels and new jollity. [Exeunt. Enter PUCK. PUCK. Now the hungry lion roars, Ou4 screech-owl, screeching loud Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is...
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The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2003 - 228 pages
...dying or of being dead, the third concerns the dead themselves — or, more exactly, their ghosts: Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping...forth his sprite In the church-way paths to glide. (5.1.365-68) Not just some graves release their ghosts. All of them do, as Puck stresses with redundancy:...
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W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse

W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...none dare call it treason. SIR JOHN HARINGTON. N' 49 The Fairy Blessing rOW the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman...fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. 114 Now...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...save for the dying embers on the hearth PUCK appears broom in hand PUCK Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman...fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe 360 In remembrance of a shroud. Now...
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