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“O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1ecab58bbae26046a34c048f4d1448fa25e53df2ba0f5c4aab41e7c93a5bba09
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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