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"Light"
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Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"It's a lightening before death ... This is generally observed of sick persons, that a little before they die their pains leave them, and their understanding and memory return to them; as a candle just before it goes out gives a great blaze."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)