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Word meaning dawn song from Romeo and Juliet?

The word "aubade" means dawn-song. It is used in Romeo and Juliet in Act III, Scene V, when Romeo sings to Juliet on the morning after their wedding night:

"Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!

Would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest!

Hence, will I to my ghostly father's cell;

His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell."

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