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The swevens came up round Harold the Earl,   Like motes in the sunnès beam;And over him stood the Weird Lady,In her charmèd castle over the sea,   Sang ‘Lie thou still and dream.’

From Andromeda and Other Poems by Kingsley, Charles

And it keepeth him from strife and riot, from evil swevens from sorrows and from enchantments, and from fantasies and illusions of wicked spirits. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The swevens came up round Harold the earl Like motes in the sunn�s beam; And over him stood the Weird Lady In her charm�d castle over the sea, Sang "Lie thou still and dream."

From Poetry of the Supernatural by Various

Now out, alacke!" sayd our comlye queene,65 "My heart with griefe will brast: I had thought swevens had never been true, I have proved them true at last.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

And quoth he, "O rare! an but swevens prove true!"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir