...in 1633, thus alludes to the common belief regarding the raven : Like the sad presaging raven thut tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And, in the shadow of the silent night. Does shake contagion from her sable wing. So also Gay in his " Pastorals " : The boding raven on her...

...renewed at intervals, from two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists, and kept watch during the night. 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 Doth shake contagion from her saole wings ; Vex'd and tormented,...

...the nunnery as a pretended novice. Enter Barabas, with a light. Sara. Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas 5 With fatal curses towards these Christians. The incertain pleasures...

...has appeared. He brings infection with him, and spreads it as he flies— " The sad-presaging raven tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak....the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." He is on the field of battle, ready for the feast, long before the carnage has begun. " As when...

...the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER TENTH. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, tliat tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barabbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW OF MALTA. THE Disinherited Knight had no...

...the lists, and kept watch during the night. CHAPTER TENTH. Thus, like the sad presaging raven, thnt tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,...of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sahle wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barnbbas, With fatal curses towards these Christians. JEW...

...hovered near a house in which sickness or infection existed. Malone quotes Marlowe, yew of Malta, ii. I : "Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in lier hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night, Does shake contagion from her sable wings."...

...would bode' ('Tro. & Cres.,' V. ii. 219). And so in Marlowe's 'Jew of Malta' (II. i. i), Barrabas says: 'the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man's...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.' 34. blab : See note on III. iii. 476—7. 46-52. To confesse . , di<vell : This daring presentation...

...">. Enter Barabas nith a light. u^ 0 \ f Bar. Thus, like, the aadj presaging jraven. jthat tolls ~ i The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings ; Vexed and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians^_ The uncertain...

...bereft my vital power." (5 Henry V1., iii. 2.) And again Marlowe, in The Jew of Malta, says: — " Thus like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The...night • Doth shake contagion from her sable wings." Touching for the king's evil, so emphatically brought to our attention in Macbeth, was revived during...