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For I myself saw the Sibyl indeed at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys used to say to her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she replied, 'I want to die."
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Within a bony labyrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aërial wave, This Sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.


— Abraham Coles, Man, the Microcosm; and the Cosmos, p. 51.

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It has all the contortions of the Sibyl without the inspiration.

Edmund Burke

— Edmund Burke, Prior's Life of Burke.

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