...money-bags, Marlowe seizes the occasion for heightening his avarice to passion : Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow...from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Harabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have...

...the raven hovered near a house in which sickness or infection existed. Malone quotes Marlowe, Jew of "Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow heak, And in the shadow of the silent night, Does shake contagion from her sable wings." Cf. Davenant,...

...DAUGHTER. ACT II., SCENE 1. Earn. Tims, like the sad -presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's |tass|inrt in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent...runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christiana. The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair...

...power it was supposed to possessof bringing infection. So Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, speaks of " The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing.' ' And in the Tempest, Act I., sc. ii, Caliban says — " As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed...

...power it was supposed to possessof bringing infection. -So Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, speaks of " The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's...shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from fyer sable wing." And in the Tempest, Act I., sc. ii, Caliban says— " As wicked dew as e'er my mother...

...hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain pleasures of swift-footed time Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair ; And of my...

...solemn passages of his Plays. MALONE quotes these fine lines of Marlowe, Jew of Malta, II, i, I : ' Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.' 27. PURNELL : lago would attach no importance to that. Othello says that that is unlike his usual wisdom....

...power it was supposed to possessof bringing infection. So Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, speaks of " The sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." And in the Tempest, Act I., sc. ii, Caliban says — " As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed...

...Farewell, Lodowick. [Exeunt severally . ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. Enter BARABAS with a light, ' AR. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The...the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas [wings ; With fatal curses towards these Christians. The uncertain...

...death. He was absolutely the cause of widespread plagues and disorders: The sick man's passport in his hollow beak And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.' ' The sad presaging raven, that tolls e And Shakespeare : MARLOWE, Jew of Malta. ' As wicked dew as...