Within the volume of which time I have seen

Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night

Hath trifled former knowings.

Rosse answers him:

Ah, good father,

Thou see'st the heavens, as troubled with man's act,

Threaten his bloody stage; by the clock 'tis day,

And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.

Is't night's predominance or the day's shame

That darkness does the-face of earth entomb