...forte Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night 370 That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth...of the sun Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic. Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house. I am sent with broom before 380 To sweep the...

...Swifter than the wandering moon. (4.1.92-5) There may also be suggestions of Puck's penultimate speech: And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's...the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic (5.1.361-5) The grace of the characters implies a reading of 'frolic' as jrohlich or joyful,...

...of Theseus at the end of the play, Puck speaks of the threefold goddess of nature whom they serve: And we fairies that do run By the triple Hecate's...presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream . . . 5.1.369-72 she has her own priestesses in the mortal world. When she speaks of her little Indian...

...did not return, and she retired, to forget in sleep the disastrous story she had heard. CHAPTER 42 Now it is the time of night, That, the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his spite, In the church-way path to glide. - SHAKESPEARE On the next night, about the same hour as before,...

...did not return, and she retired, to forget in sleep the disastrous story she had heard. CHAPTER 42 Now it is the time of night, That, the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his spite, In the church-way path to glide. - SHAKESPEARE *** On the next night, about the same hour as...

...Whilst the scriteh-owl, scotching loui, Puts the wretch, that lira in woe, In remembrance of a shrawd. Now it is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lots forth his sprite, la the churchway paths to glide : VOL. I. 18 And we fairies that do ran By the...

...tradition. But it does not always require the powers of a magician. In A Midsummer Night s Dream, Puck says, "Now it is the time of night / That the graves, all...forth his sprite, / In the churchway paths to glide" (V, i, 37 1 -74); cf. his earlier reference to this tradition in III, ii, 378-87. In Julius Caesar,...

...the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scotching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of...the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth its sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team,...

...the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, livery one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By...