“If we shadows have offended,
Know but this and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear,
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding, but a dream.”

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

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