"Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?"
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William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act III, scene 1, line 9.
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