"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow."
(When a very good friend of ten years... not much, as these matters go, and not as long... enough for me- died in June of 2004, when I received the news early the next month- this line, I seem to recall, did come to mind. I think I did see the play later that year- I already knew the line but I may only have associated the two afterwards. That matters less to me, for I can't unlink at all them now.
Less personally, less involved with my own life, there is a piece of music There is a willow grows aslant a brook. I have heard it once; the composer's name is Frank Bridge (1879–1941). I did not read the notes on the LP so carefully; so I did not see what I later learned. Reading Hamlet a few years later, I ran into the line. There is a reason why Bridge chose it- if you do not know what is announced in that paragraph, find it and you will see...)
