...Augur: prophet; fever's end: ie, death (See A Midsummer Night's Dream: "the screech-owl, screeching loud, / Puts the wretch that lies in woe / In remembrance of a shroud" [5.1.393-95].) 9. session: sitting (of the assembly of birds); interdict: forbid, prohibit 10. Every...

...snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the scritch-owl, scotching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance...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,...

...snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching o bound. BASSANIO. Your answer to that. SHYLOCK. Antonio...BASSANIO. Have you heard any imputation to the contrary? livery one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By...

...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,...

...paranormal activity, and the link between church and water form part of a Christian sacred geography. "Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide Everyone lets forth his sprite In the church-way paths to glide." -Wm. Shakespeare (Midsummer's Night...