...BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Heralds, djr. Bert. Hung he the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comet*, ; now weep for him, then laugh at him, that 1 drave...suitor from hid mad humor of love, to a living bumo had revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death! Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!...

...accept it or not. Shakespeare makes the Duke of Bedford, lamenting at the bier of Henry V, say : " Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish...revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death." Milton, speaking of Satan preparing for combat, says : "... On the other side, " Incensed with indignation,...

...And the Duke of Bedford in the first part of King Henry VI., act i., scene i, exclaims : — • " Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night...revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! " See also I Henry IV., act iii., scene 2. VENDS.— The evening star is allluded to, Sonnet cxxxii....

...the EARL OF WARWICK; the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER ; Heralds, &c. BED. Hung be the heavens with black, (i) yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times...revolting stars, That have consented" unto Henry's death! King Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth. GLO. England...

...distinguishing dresses in Shakespeare's tyring-room. HENRY VI.—PART I." ACT I. sc. 1. Bedford's speech;— " Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...have consented unto Henry's death! Henry the fifth, too<famous to live long! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth." READ aloud any two or three passages...

...So Kofv/JTys, (longhaired) comet. The same metaphor is ' ridden to death' in I Henry VI. I. i. 2 : " Comets importing change of times and states Brandish...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars." tightened breath. Think what kind of epithet this is. 26 cresset, Gl. Lihe reeds beside a frozen brooh....

...themselves blaze at the death of princes." — Henry IV. and " Comets portending change of time and state, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with...scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented to our Henry's death." — 1 Henry VI., i. 1. phenomenon to the Gospel narrative is now generally abandoned...

...Dukes of Bedford, Glostur, and Exeter, the Earl of Warwick, the Bishop of Winchester, Heralds, &c. assing welcome, And so I pray you all to think yourselves. Pet. .Signior Baptista, my business asketli ! King Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth. Gla....

...as well as Halley's comet. Compare Hill's opening with the first lines of Henry VI (Part I, Ii1-4): Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars. As the first half of Hill's sonnet says, whether the stars, or Halley's comet, actually foretold that...

...Tamburlaine, enhancing the visual correspondence between the two plays Bedford's expression of grief- — Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death (I HENRY VI, 1. 1. 1 -5) — recalls the words of an earlier "scourge," Tamburlaine, in his own remonstrance...