The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, doth with his lofty and shrill sounding throat wake the God of day

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, doth with his lofty and shrill sounding throat wake the God of day

In William Shakespeare's works, the cock is often used as a symbol of the dawn and the beginning of a new day. In many of his plays and sonnets, Shakespeare references the cock crowing at dawn as a signal of the start of a new day and the awakening of the world around us.