“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
Anne Rice (1941) American writer
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
Source: Hamlet
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And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." by William Shakespeare?
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