Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’…

William Shakespeare
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Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more! ✨ 1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.
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Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more! ✨ 1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

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