...Christmas eve, you will find the animals on their knees. EUSEBIA. And Shakspere will tell you that "Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...SAVIOUR'S Birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning croweth all night long." PISTUS. A trueV symbolism than any of the above is, I think, to be foundjn...

...that great painter of nature, Shakespeare, has remarked. " Some say, that ever 'gainst that isason comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long. HAMLET, Act i . scene 1. And here it may not be amiss to take notice of the beautiful propriety with...

...ever after during the holy season the cock was supposed to exert his power throughout the night. " Some say, that ever, 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then they say no spirit walks abroad." Traces of these religious breakfasts are said to have been still...

...firstnamed festival. Perhaps Milton, in the quotation at the above reference, remembered Shakespeare : gome say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our...bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planeU strike, No fairy...

...pinvl friends. The spirit of CHARITY is in the air. " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comei Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad: The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes,...

...present text. RM SFBHCK, MA Manse of Arbuthnott, NB • HAJÍLKT,' I. i.— Some say, that erer 'gainit that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning aingeth all night long. Shakespeare evidently alludes to some tradition or superstition ; bat what...

...cock-crowing is likewise at a certain season rendered still more important : — " Some say that over against that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is...bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then they say, no spirit walks abroad. The nights are wholesome — then, no planets strike, No fairy takes,...

...fo. 89b, 90. Compare the well-known lines in Hamlet, I. i. — that when " that season comes AVherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated. The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy...

...weather, according to the Verse : " ' Some say for ever 'gainst that season comee, Wherin our Saviours birth is celebrated, The Bird of dawning singeth all Night long, And then they say no spirit dares walk abroad, So sacred and so hallow' J is that tune.' " W. Shaiei." In the...

...Winter cannot mar. In David's city doth this Sun appear, Clouded in flesh, yet Shepherds sit we here. " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy...