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M. C. Cooke
The Seven Sisters of Sleep
Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338069337
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THE SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP.
CHAPTER I.
SOMEWHAT FABULOUS.
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“Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.”——Coleridge.
During the Decian persecution, seven inhabitants of Ephesus retired to a cave, six were persons of some consequence, the seventh was their servant; from hence they despatched the attendant occasionally to purchase food for them. Decius, who like most tyrants possessed long ears, hearing of this, ordered the mouth of the cave to be stopped up while the fugitives were sleeping. After a lapse of some hundred years, a part of the masonry at the mouth of the cave falling, the light flowing in awakened them. Thinking, as Rip Van Winkle also thought, that they had enjoyed a good night’s rest, they despatched their servant to buy provisions. All appeared to him strange in Ephesus; and a whimsical dialogue took place, the citizens accusing him of having found hidden treasure, he persisting that he offered the current coin of the realm. At length, the attention of the emperor was excited, and he went, in company with the bishop, to visit them. They related their story, and shortly after expired.