Shakespeare.—King John, Act IV. Scene 2.
The dews of summer night did fall;
Silver’d the walls of Cumnor Hall,
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.