Willa Cather lifts the epigraph for her novel A Lost Lady (1923) from Act IV, scene V of Hamlet. Ophelia, leaving the stage, says,
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Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
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With the exception of the first three words, the same line concludes part II of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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