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NIGHTMARE ABBEY
By
_Thomas Love Peacock_
CONTENTS
NIGHTMARE ABBEY
NOTES TO _Nightmare Abbey_
NIGHTMARE ABBEY:
BY
THE AUTHOR OF HEADLONG HALL.
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There's a dark lantern of the spirit,
Which none see by but those who bear it,
That makes them in the dark see visions
And hag themselves with apparitions,
Find racks for their own minds, and vaunt
Of their own misery and want.
BUTLER.
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LONDON:
1818.
MATTHEW. Oh! it's your only fine humour, sir. Your true melancholy
breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, divers
times, sir; and then do I no more but take pen and paper presently,
and overflow you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.
STEPHEN. Truly, sir, and I love such things out of measure.
MATTHEW. Why, I pray you, sir, make use of my study: it's at your
service.
STEPHEN. I thank you, sir, I shall be bold, I warrant you. Have you a
stool there, to be melancholy upon?
BEN JONSON, _Every Man in his Humour_, Act 3, Sc.
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