...death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night,...hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA 150 If then true lovers have been ever...

...death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night,...hath power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's...

...annoyed Victor. Then he chuckled triumphantly at the priest's dismay and fell deeply asleep. UNRAVELIN& And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. — A Midsummer Night's Dream I, 1,149-151...

...a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 1 hat, Willi devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA. If, then, true lovers have been ever...

...food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food."] 1 Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That (in a spleen) unfolds [both] heav'n and earth And ere [a] man has power to say, Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Shakespeare,...