[3] It is noticeable that those short passages in which Shakespeare
describes a sunrise all take colour from the circumstances of the
_dramatis personæ_. Shakespeare has not a pigeon-hole for sunrises from
which he draws indiscriminately at need. To the ghost in _Hamlet_ the
morning comes as the twilight of night, which is his day, and so he
expresses it by reference to the paling light of the glow-worm:--
“The glow-worm shews the matin to be near,
And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire.”