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Y managed to sleep an amazyng 7.5 hours last nyght, whych, the way thyngs have been goyng lately, seems lyke a lot.
"So lose some sleep and say you tried." mechangel 2009
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Her French tutor, Giles Duwes, with her since her time in the Welsh Marches, left her household in 1533 and wrote her a guilty little letter that he sheepishly noted was "written by your vnworthy seruant the nyght that he toke leue of your grace."
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And them that slepen al the nyght in Williams Burghe;
From The BSNYC Culture Desk: Art and Transience BikeSnobNYC 2008
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That al that nyght, thogh that men wolde him shake,
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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Johnes lordschipe, in goynge streyght toward the est, men fynde nothing but mountaynes and roches fulle grete: and there is the derke regyoun, where no man may see, nouther be day ne be nyght, as thei of the contree seyn.
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And in the nyght, thei dwellen in the watir, and on the day, upon the lond, in roches and caves.
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And aboven the chief tour of the palays, ben 2 rounde pomeles of gold; and in everyche of hem ben 2 carboncles grete and large, that schynen fulle brighte upon the nyght.
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This man lay upon a nyght in his bed, and he sawhe in a visioun, that there cam before him a knyght armed alle in white, and he satt upon a white hors, and seyd to him, Can, slepest thou?
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But after the firste nyght, that they ben leyn by, thei kepen hem so streytely, that thei ben not so hardy to speke with no man.
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And he liggethe never but o nyght with on of hem, and another nyght with another, but zif that on happene to ben more lusty to his plesance than another.
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