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The evening star.
“Ere twice in murk and occidental damp,
Moist Hesperus hath quenched his sleepy lamp.”
Shakespeare: All’s Well that Ends Well, ii. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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