Night's black mantle covers all alike.

 

Night's black mantle covers all alike.
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First Week, First Day. Compare: "Come civil night,… with thy black mantle", William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2.

 

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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