...King That was and is the question of these wars. 1 1 1 Hor. A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...fell. The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead 115 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. ooooo As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,...

...starts, for no particular reason, to relate in lurid detail what happened in Rome before Caesar's murder: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets . . . (Q2 B2b, 1.1.113-16) This can be read as a promise of ghoulish pleasures in the other play if...

...to relate in htrid detail what happened in Rome before Caesar's murder: In the most high and pahny state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell....sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets . . . (Q2 B2b, 1.1.113-16) This can be read as a promise of ghoulish pleasures in the other play if...

...removed. In this sense, Young is reacting against the logic of Shakespeare's characters. 2.1.59-63 A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (Hamlet, I.\. 114-16) Both passages refer to reanimating the dead. In the case of Julius Caesar, the...

...(1.1.112-25) that occurred before Caesar's death was shortened to: 'A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, a little ere the mightiest Julius fell, there were even the like precursors of fierce events, such prologues to the omen coming on." Julius...

..."the evil influence of a star" or "an ominous sign in the heavens," as in this passage from Hamlet: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. (The "moist star" mentioned here, by the way, is the moon.) THE ancient Greeks were well acquainted...

...his account of the portents preceding Caesar's assassination, some of which he used again in Hamlet: The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead...empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. (ii 115-20) Here we have five portents mentioned - ghosts in the streets of Rome, stars with trains...

...king no That was and is the question of these wars. HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets, And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to...

...Caesar — not Caesar's ghost, but the portents before the murder, and the terms are very striking : In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (113-16) The contrast of diction between 'high and palmy state' and 'squeak and gibber' bodes something...

...Hamlet's father; the question is whether the spirit is an omen: A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little...empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to...