...the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then,...nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. (ii 157) 'Gracious*....

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...in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein 155 This present object made probation. Mar. It faded...season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated. The bird of dawning singeth all night long; 160 And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The...

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...cockcrow is discussed, at first as confirming popular belief, but it grows (of course) to more than that : It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome . . . (157-62) 'This bird of dawning' associated with Christian...

...introduces yet another bit of folklore into the perplexed discussion on the ramparts of the castle: It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad, The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power...