Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Actus Primus, Scena Prima • Paragraph 397
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[Footnote I.59: _In the dead waste and middle of the night_,] _i.e._, in the dark and desolate vast, or vacant space and middle of the night. It was supposed that spirits had permission to range the earth by night alone.]