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Trumpet: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Trumpet, blow loud; Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents. T. C. i. 3. Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath; Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. M. v 6 Go to the rude ribs of that antient castle; Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parle— R. II. iii. 3.

Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver. Give, with thy trumpet, a loud note to Troy, Thou dreadful Ajax; that the apalled air May pierce the head of the great combatant, And hale him thither.— T. C. iv. 5.

Thou, trumpet, there's my purse.. Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe: Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek Out-swell the cholic of puff'd Aquilon: Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood: Thou blow'st for Hector.— T. C. iv. 5

Trumpeters, With brazen din, blast you the city's ear; Make mingle with our rattling tabourines; That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,— A. C. iv. 8.

Applauding our approach. Sound, trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.— H.VI. PT. III. ii. 2.