...WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Heralds, &e. Bed. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night 1 Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish...revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death 1 King Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth. Glo....

...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,...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...

...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...

...(/ 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 DUKE OF GLOSTEK. England ne'er had a king until his time. Virtue he had, deserving to command: His...

...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...

...And in the play's opening lines, the Duke of Bedford bewailed the death of his brother, Henry V: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets,...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." Like military banners seen in the distance, menacing apparitions of comets were used by dissidents...

...down the circle steps, a seat banged and a voice — Dr. John James Rutherford's — shouted: "Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets,...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars— Repeat," Dr. Rutherford bawled, leaning over the balustrade, "repeat: bad revolting stars. I'm here,...

...proportion to his heroism. Bedford's invocation suitably combines the tragic with the cosmic: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets,...states. Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky[...] (I i 1-3)2 Gloucester in a series of metonymic flashes and epic comparisons offers the portrait of...