midnight
`` We have heard the chimes at midnight , Master Shallow ! '' Never till then had _ I _ heard them . And the town in which I slept was Evesham , but a few miles from Stratford-on-Avon . What if those midnight bells had been to me but as any other , and I had reviled them for breaking my sleep ? -- Johnson did not much exaggerate . It is the second Jubilee . Bonfires blaze upon the hills , making one think of the watchman on Agamemnon 's citadel .