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Come, sleep, O sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The impartial judge between the high and low.
Come, sleep, O sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The impartial judge between the high and low.
Approximate author period: c. 1570 AD · renaissance
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- Sir Philip Sidney
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- Approximate author period: c. 1570 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1554–1586)
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote1728 · printed citation: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Astrophel and Stella, St. 39.
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