...BEDFORD, GLOSTER, and EXETER; the EARL of WARWICK,' the BISHOP of WINCHESTER, Heralds, frc. Bedford. HUNG be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets,...change of times and states, Brandish your crystal 8 tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad, revolting stars, That have consented 3 unto Henry's...

...Portending chaunge of states.— Compare the following passage in the First Part of Henry VI : — " Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky." Page 18. Imperious thoughts. — The same expression occurs in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, act ii,...

...distinguishing dresses in Shakspeare's tyring-room. HENRY VI. PART I. ACT I. sc. 1. Bedford's speech : — Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets,...revolting stars That 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...

...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! Comets,...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! Comets,...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...

...Jiang and Han, into the Xiao and Xiang — haunt Du Fu's last years in the wilds. 6 Night Verse Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets,...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars . . . WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HENRY VI, PART I To PEOPLE of Du Fu's time, the night sky was filled with...

...prognostications of comets were always applied to the short-term future, as Shakespeare's Bedford reminds us: 'Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky."35 The appearance of Halley's comet in 1066 was also interpreted in immediate terms: 'Blazing...

...(/ Tamburlaine, Pro., 5) — an influence readily apparent in the opening lines of / Henry VI: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets,...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death — . . . . (1.i.1-5) clearly transmissible as well. The feeling of 'bloody and insatiate Tamburlaine,'...

...the DUKE OF EXETER, the EARL OF WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, HERALDS, &C. DUKE OF BEDFORD. HUNG Montague? ROMEO. Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. JULIET. How Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth. DUKE OF GLOSTEK....

...death of princes." And in his Henry VI (Part I, Act I, Sc. 1) is the following: "Comets, iniporting change of times and states, Brandish your crystal...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." We may smile with sophisticated superiority as we read of the medieval ideas concerning comets, yet...