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FOLK LORE.

_High Spirits considered a Sign of impending Calamity or Death_ (Vol.
ii., p. 84.).--

"_Westmoreland_. Health to my lord, and gentile cousin, Mowbray.

_Mowbray_. You wish me health in very happy season;
For I am, on the sudden, something ill.

_Archbishop of York_. Against ill chances, men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.

_West_. Therefore be merry, cos; since sudden sorrow
Serves to say thus,--Some good thing comes to-morrow.

_Arch_. Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.

_Mow_. So much the worse, if your own rule be true."

Second Part of _King Henry IV._, Act iv. Sc. 2.

In the last act of _Romeo and Juliet_, Sc. 1, Romeo comes on, saying,--

"If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,