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  • At that moment Gloster enters with the news that he has discovered a plot to kill the King; the rest that 'might yet have balm'd his broken senses' is again interrupted; and he is hurried away on a litter towards

    Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

  • Bath'd, balm'd them, shirts and well-napt weeds put on, 60

    Fourth Book 1857

  • Cleans'd then and balm'd, fair shirt and robe put on, 610

    Eighth Book 1857

  • Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured

    Pericles 1607

  • This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,

    King Lear 1605

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