"...graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art. But this roughmagic I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Glendower. I cannot blame him: at my nativity 1555 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Hotspur (Henry Percy). Why, so it would have done at the same season, if 1560 your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself had never been born.
Glendower. I say the earth did shake when I was born.
Hotspur (Henry Percy). And I say the earth was not of my mind, If you suppose as fearing you it shook. 1565
Glendower. The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.
Hotspur (Henry Percy). O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire, And not in fear of your nativity. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth 1570 Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving, Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth 1575 Our grandam earth, having this distemperature, In passion shook.
Glendower. Cousin, of many men I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave To tell you once again that at my birth 1580 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields. These signs have mark'd me extraordinary; And all the courses of my life do show 1585 I am not in the roll of common men. Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? And bring him out that is but woman's son 1590 Can trace me in the tedious ways of art And hold me pace in deep experiments.
Mortimer. Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad. 1595
Glendower. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur (Henry Percy). Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?
Glendower. Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command The devil. 1600
Hotspur (Henry Percy). And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil. If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence. O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!
The relationship ended years ago, in her sophomore year, when they both thought their love was captured in amber—forever. How could it change? But things did change.
And one day, he was gone. She always told him he was as variable as light waves. He told her she was just projecting. But something reached into the amber and snatched their relationship away. The love was still there, but it was an artifact now, from another age.