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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1735.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

Thy sleep shall be sweet.

Proverbs 3:24

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 3:24).

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 29.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 5.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 5.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come. London: Nathaniel Ponder, 1678, pt. 1.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, edited by Roger Pooley. Penguin Classics, 2009, pt. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 2. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Plutarch. "Περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας [On Superstition]." Moralia [Ἠθικά]. c. 100 AD.

I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Nas

N.Y. State of Mind

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Nas and Chris Martin. "N.Y. State of Mind." Performed by Nas. Illmatic. Columbia Recordings, 1994.

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Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.

If thou wilt ease thine heart
Of lover and all its smart
Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest-book; Or, The Fool's Tragedy. London: William Pickering, 1850.

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest Book. Routledge, 2020.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 132:4).

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." The Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Norwich: Fletcher and Son, c. 1835.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works, edited by C. A. Patrides. Penguin Classics, 1977.

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Poems. Henry Holt, 1917, I. 1.

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Selected Poems of Edward Thomas. Faber & Faber, 2011, I. 1.

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Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, c. 1489, bk. 14, I. 231.

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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 14, I. 231.

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Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness.

Euripides

Orestes

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Euripides. Ὀρέστης [Orestes]. 408 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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Euripides. "Orestes." Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.