Thus he makes Horatio in the first scene of “Hamlet” speak with awe of:
“Stars with trains of fire and dews of blood;
And even the like precurse of fierce events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
And prologue to the omen coming on.”
More briefly Shakespeare in his “Henry VI.” refers to:
“A Comet of revenge
A prophet to the fall of all our foes”;
and again, in “The Taming of the Shrew” to: