It best agrees with night.—Come, civil night,

Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,

And learn me how to lose a winning match,

Play’d for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:

Hold my unmann’d blood bating in my cheeks,

With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,

Thinks true love acted, simple modesty.

Come night!—Come, Romeo! come, thou day in night;

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night

Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back.——