Chapter MODULATION to MOON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Shakespeare.—King John, Act IV. Scene 2.

The dews of summer night did fall;
The moon, sweet regent of the sky,
Silver’d the walls of Cumnor Hall,
And many an oak that grew thereby.

Mickle.—See Scott’s Introduction to Kenilworth.

1. By yonder blessed moon I swear.
2. O, swear not by the moon, the unconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2.

The moon pull’d off her veil of light,
That hides her face by day from sight,
(Mysterious veil, of brightness made,
That’s both her lustre and her shade,)
And in the lantern of the night,
With shinning horns hung out her light.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto I. Line 905.