High Spirits considered a Sign of impending Calamity or Death

(Vol. ii., p. 84.).— "*Westmoreland*. Health to my lord, and gentile cousin, Mowbray. *Mowbray*. You wish me health in very happy season; For I am, on the sudden, something ill. *Archbishop of York*. Against ill chances, men are ever merry; But heaviness foreruns the good event. *West*. Therefore be merry, cos; since sudden sorrow Serves to say thus,—Some good thing comes to-morrow. *Arch*. Believe me, I am passing light in spirit. *Mow*. So much the worse, if your own rule be true." Second Part of *King Henry IV.*, Act iv. Sc. 2. In the last act of *Romeo and Juliet*, Sc. 1, Romeo comes on, s…