William Shakespeare on Symbols

“If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o' mornings; what should that bode?”

“Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.”