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" Tis now the very witching time of night When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. "
The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 177
by William Shakespeare - 1767
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The Kendall/Hunt Anthology: Literature to Write About

K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...will say so [Exit. Ham. "By and by" is easily said. Leave me, friends. [Exeunt all but Hamlet.] 405 Tis now the very witching time of night When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood. And do such bitter business...
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Hamlet

Tanya Grosz - Drama - 2003 - 76 pages
...quotations from Hamlet, and write the letter of the character who spoke the line in the space provided. "'Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to the world." a. The ghost c. Claudius b. Hamlet d. Laertes 2. "Oh speak...
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Memoir of a Modern Opium Eater

McVea - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 240 pages
...with your comrade to his inauguration into The Dungeon of All Human Suffering: The House of Pain " 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world." It's many years now—and oh, how it does seem like centuries—since...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...another imagined scene of infectious nocturnal emission, prior to his bedchamber encounter with Gertrude: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. (3-2-377~9) Lucrece's 'make sick the Ufe of purity', like...
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Christopher Booker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 748 pages
...given his stepfather, he is now summoning up all his resolve to commit the ultimate act of darkness: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out, Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood And do such bitter business...
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Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

Gail Kern Paster - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 291 pages
...correspondence, new in him but familiar to us in the actions of Pyrrhus, between night and his own state of mind: "Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself [breathes] out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such [bitter business...
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Italian Mysteries, Or, More Secrets Than One

Francis Lathom - Fiction - 2005 - 412 pages
...for my dear master's return, and I am come to consult widyou what is to be done for the best; for, ' Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world;' and therefore he must not be left unsought after any...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...avenger. He appears to be working himself up to a state of excitement in which he can kill the King: "Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstem depart HAMLET 'By and by' is easily said. Leave me, friends. [the rest go 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business...
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Shakespeare and the Ideal of Love

Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...lunacy of hellish darkness and, as his heart hardens, his speech becomes as murderous as Macbeth's: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. 2.379-83 The dark...
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