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  • All things that we ordained festival
    Turn from their office to black funeral--
    Our instruments to melancholy bells,
    Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
    Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
    Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
    And all things change them to the contrary.

    William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247