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" Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon ; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. "
An Introduction to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream - Page 39
by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 104 pages
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...BY THE FAIRIES. Enter PUCK. Puck. Now the hungry lion roars,6 And the Wolf behowls the moon, While the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone....scritch-owl scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in wa, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves all gaping wide, Every...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...BY THE FAIRIES. Enter PUCK. Puck. Now the hungry lion roars, 6 And the wolf behowls the moon, While the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone....scritch-owl scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in wo, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves all gaping wide, Every...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...Puck. Now the hungry lion roars, 6 And the wolf behowls the moon, While the heavy ploughman snmvs, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands...scritch-owl scritching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in wo, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves all gaping wide, Every...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...life Is rounded with a sleep. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck said: Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the...heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. . . If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here...
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Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages ...

David G. Allen, Robert A. White - 1990 - 284 pages
...anticipation of yet a fortnight of "nightly revels and new jollity," Puck steals in and reminds us that Now the hungry lion roars And the wolf behowls the moon. Whilst the heavy plowman snores All with weary task foredone. (5.1.361-64) Not that the fairies' work is done, and Puck...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear. How easy is a bush supposed a bear! (V, i) 128 it has gone off, like a horse. (1. 7-9) 42 The moon, also, is merciless: she would screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is...
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Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing

Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 pages
...all the mortal newlyweds, he chases away the screech owl of mortality: "The screech owl, screeching loud / Puts the wretch that lies in woe / In remembrance of a shroud" (MND 5.1.362-64). This reminds Harold F. Brooks of the similar owl in "The Phoenix and the Turtle":...
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Four Comedies

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...Hippolyta, Philostrate, Demetrius, Helena, Lysander, Hermia, Lords, and Attendants Enter Puck PUCK Now the hungry lion roars And the wolf behowls the...Whilst the heavy ploughman snores All with weary task foredone. Now the wasted brands do glow Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that...
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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

1995 - 108 pages
...we this solemnity, In nightly revels and new jollity. ( THEY exit. Enter PUCK with a broom.) PUCK. Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the...fordone. Now 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...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...— A fortnight hold we this solemnity In nightly revels and new jollity. [Exeunt. Enter PUCK. PUCK. id me say to you screech-owl, screeching loud Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is...
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