In Shakespeare's Hamlet, one character describes a common belief that in the Christmas season:
B) Roosters crow all night long
The speaker is the soldier Marcellus, standing watch on the battlements. Marcellus says:
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
The speech comes in the play's first scene. |
