...terms' (/ Tamburlaine, Pro., 5) — an influence readily apparent in the opening lines of / Henry VI: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death — . . . . (1.i.1-5) clearly transmissible as well. The feeling of 'bloody and insatiate Tamburlaine,'...

...death of princes." And in his Henry VI (Part I, Act I, Sc. 1) is the following: "Comets, iniporting change of times and states, Brandish your crystal...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." We may smile with sophisticated superiority as we read of the medieval ideas concerning comets, yet...

...foes!12 And in the play's opening lines, the Duke of Bedford bewailed the death of his brother, Henry V: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death." Like military banners seen in the distance, menacing apparitions of comets were used by dissidents...

...noisily down the circle steps, a seat banged and a voice — Dr. John James Rutherford's — shouted: "Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars— Repeat," Dr. Rutherford bawled, leaning over the balustrade, "repeat: bad revolting stars. I'm here,...

...dimensions in proportion to his heroism. Bedford's invocation suitably combines the tragic with the cosmic: Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...states. Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky[...] (I i 1-3)2 Gloucester in a series of metonymic flashes and epic comparisons offers the portrait of...

...There is a significant congruity in rhetorical mode and sentiment with the opening of 1H6, eg 1-5; 'Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...revolting stars / That have consented unto Henry's death!' 9. bowers] eye-sockets (EAJH). 10. tempered] refreshed, gave health to (cf. the sentiment of 11. 44-5...

...there and traced our route while at the telescope on Palomar." CHAPTER Springtime on Jupiter: 1993 Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky . . . — SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, circa 1590 19 E i VERYONE who knew Gene Shoemaker was amazed at how...

...Gloucester, the Duke of Exeter, the Earl of Warwick, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset. BEDFORD Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day,...night! Comets, importing change of times and states, 2 Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars 4 That have...

...up in the machine of state : l Henry VI opens with a dead march and the Duke of Bedford declaiming Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night...sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars .... But dukes have no monopoly of such language. In 2 Henry VI, rv, i, a sea-captain notices that...

...Comet-Seeker Hoax of 1891 ," Sky & Telescope, 57 (1979), 420-422. Comet searching in the twentieth century Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!...states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI, circa 15901 "Wanted - a perfect husband, one who wants that happiness not...