Good Hamlet cast thy nightly colour off, [Sidenote: nighted] And let thine eye looke like a Friend on Denmarke.

Such lines as these manifest something more than a desire for rhetorical effect in speaking of nature's phenomena: "Now welcom somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast this wintres weders over-shake, And driven awey the longe nightes blake!"

A baron's faire daughter stept forth in the nighte, To search for her father, who fell in the fight, And seeing yong Montfort, where gasping he laye, Was moved with pitye, and broughte him awaye.

Thys nighte I will adventure, & obay As he shall fashyion me to meete or stay.

Poor Erasmus caughte colde on the water last nighte, and keeps house.

She one nighte, in the absence of her lorde, leaned her lovely arme upon a gentleman's, and walked in the fyldes.

Whence came the cloude that veil'd the orb of nighte, When first her lippes she yielded to delyght?

"'Lord Jhesu Crist and seynte Benedight, Blesse this hous from every wikkede wight Fro nightes verray, the white Paternoster When wonestow now, seynte Petres soster.'