Morning In Anderson And Shakespeare

A Midsummer Tempest, ii.

Sir Malachi Shelgrave:

"'There goes a daybreak wide across the world
"'Which forces pretty stars to flee our sight.
"But oh, those stars were shining infamous
"'Within that chamber which a tyrant kept!
"''Tis pity that you fight for fading night.'" (p. 13)

(Shelgrave has to add a political point.)

But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

-Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1, here.

Those lines stayed in my memory when we saw Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at school in the 1960s.