William Shakespeare on Mermaids
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“O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears.”
“Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song: And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.”