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Midnight hags,
By force of potent spells, of bloody characters,
And conjurations horrible to hear,
Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep,
And set the ministers of hell at work.

— Nicholas Rowe Jane Shore (1714)

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At length the morn and cold indifference came.

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