And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground.
(Titus Andronicus.)
And Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona:
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns;
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale's complaining notes
Tune my distresses and record my woes.
Like this, in elegiac sentimentality, is Romeo:
Before the worshipp'd sun