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...lying like a little heap of bones on the barren desert of my mind. Ah God! no peace. How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible!...mother's lap! there I should rest And sleep secure. Sleep and no sleep: peace and no peace. Must I live still? an agony pendant on the long chain of my...

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...Much Ado About Nothing, v, 1, 38 : And made a push at chance and sufferance. . . . How gladly would / meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! How glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap I Paradise Lost, x, 1004-5: [Eve'} . . . and have the power Of many ways to die the shortest choosing,...

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...Antony, Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible!...mother's lap! There I should rest And sleep secure. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet How often are we to die before we go right off this stage? In...