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“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0e83d0f7408e57fb7e49d001fb9b260ac2e7e589f0bbc7ba4a767b7b3069d9da
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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