I will ride thee o’ nights like the mare. – Shakespeare

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\Mare\, n. Mara incubus (Med.); Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; — obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. (Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.)

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I will not be ridden like the mare, by the mare, I will not.

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