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And 'tis no sweven, [dream] ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness [immortality]--it is real.

—The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time

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A dream. And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres, I slombred in a slepyng it sweyued so merye. Thanne gan I to meten a merueilouse sweuene. Piers Plowman (B), ProL, l. 11. Swevenes engendren of replecciouns, And ofte of fume and of complecciouns, Whan humours ben to abundant in a wight. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 103.

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And 'tis no sweven, [dream] ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness [immortality]--it is real. — The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
I was flayed with a sweven,--[140 My heart out of slough. — "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
But to meet God! And 'tis no sweven, [dream] ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness [immortality] -- it is real. — The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
I dreamt in my sweven on Thursday eve, — A Book of Old Ballads — Complete
Then 'gan I to meten [1] a marvellous sweven, [2] — Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete

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from Middle English sweven, swevene, swefn, from Anglo-Saxon swefen, sleep, dream, = Old Saxon swebhan = Icelandic svefn = Swedish sömn = Danish sövn = Latin somnus (*sopnus), sleep, = Greek ύπνος = Lithuanian sapnas = Sanskrit svapna, sleep, from √ svap, sleep. Cf. Somnus, somnolent, etc., sopor, soporific, etc., hypnotic, etc.

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