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Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night!

HOUSEKEEPER.

We've listened here too long: go all of you

And get the rooms prepared. My head's distracted![Exeunt all, different ways.

SCENE IV.

A Bed-chamber.

Enter Alice and Marian, with a Servant before them, carrying lights.

MARIAN.

You must be tired with all this noisy merriment

So closely following a lengthen'd journey,

ALICE.

To be amongst the happy and the kind

Keeps weariness at bay; and yet I own
I shall be glad to rest.

MARIAN.

And may you find it, sound and undisturb'd!

There is among our household damsels here,