Both Uses of
portent
in
Henry IV, Part 1
- O, what portents are these?
Scene 2.3 *portents = signs of something to come (in Shakespeare's day, more specifically referring to signs indicating the approach of evil or calamity)
- What say you to't? will you again unknit This churlish knot of all-abhorred war, And move in that obedient orb again Where you did give a fair and natural light; And be no more an exhaled meteor, A prodigy of fear, and a portent Of broached mischief to the unborn times?†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(portent) a sign of something about to happen