CHAP. 10. 1. ANTIQUITIES, &c. 307 



Hoc esse signum praescii, 

 Norunt repromissae spei, 

 Qua nos, soporis liberi, 

 Speramus adventum Dei." 



That Devils and evil Genii were anciently 

 believed to wander about at night, and to be 

 dispersed and sent away by the approach of 

 morning, we are assured by a mass of collateral 

 testimony. Cassian observes, " Auroraque ita 

 sujjerveniente, cum omnis haec daemonum mul- 

 titude ab oculis evanescit" 



Philostratus the sophist relating the appa- 

 rition of the shade of Achilles to Apollonius 

 Thyaneus, says, that it vanished with a little 

 glimmering so soon as the Cock had crowed. 



An early poet observes of a Spirit, that 



" The morning Cock crew loud, 



And at the sound it shrunke in haste awaie, 

 And vanished from our sighte." 



Shakspeare observes in Macbeth, in allusion 

 to the Nightwatches marked by the cock- 

 crowing : 



" We were carousing till the second Cock." 

 And again in King Lear : 

 " He begins with the Curfew, and walks till the first Cock." 



In Romeo and Juliet is another passage of 

 the same kind : 



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