“What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?
Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,
Sinks down to rest.”

—  Joseph Addison, book Cato

Act V, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

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