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Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, Th’ indifferent judge between the high and low.
Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, Th’ indifferent 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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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 551 · printed citation: Sir Philip Sidney · subject: SLEEP
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