midnight
The rest is silence ! '' _ -LRB- Dies . -RRB- And then to close the scene of slaughter , the noble and faithful Horatio , bending over the body of his princely friend , exclaims : _ `` Now cracks a noble heart ; Good night , sweet prince , And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest ! '' _ Such tumultuous applause I never heard in a theatre , and shouts for `` The Ghost '' and `` Hamlet '' prevailed until William and Burbage came from behind the curtain and made a triple bow to the audience as the clock in the tower of Saint Paul struck the midnight hour . _ The lesson in great Hamlet taught , Is that a throne is dearly bought By lawless love and bloody deeds , Which fester like corrupted weeds , And smell to heaven with poison breath Involving all in certain death . For fraud and murder ca n't be hid Since Eve and Cain did what they did And left us naked through the world , Like meteors in midnight hurled , To darkle in this trackless sphere , Not knowing what we 're doing here ! _