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DR. SOUTH, when once preaching before Charles II., observed that the
monarch and his attendants began to nod, and some of them soon after
snored, on which he broke off in his sermon, and said: Lord Lauderdale,
let me entreat you to rouse yourself; you snore so loud that you will
awake the king!
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