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Prodigies: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead— H. i. I

Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Stars with trains of fire, and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday, with eclipse.— H. i. 1

No natural exhalation in the sky, No scape of nature, no distemper'd day, No common wind, no customed event, But they will pluck away his natural cause, And call them meteors, prodigies, and signs, Abortives, presages, and tongues of heaven,— K. J. iii. 4

Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John. Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds, In ranks, and squadrons, and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the capitol: The noise of battle hurtled in the air, Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan.— J. C. ii. 2

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.— J.C. ii. 2