9 Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep. CERVANTES Don Quixote. LXVIII. 10 (See also SAXE) Pt. II. Ch. It is not good a sleping hound to wake. CHAUCER-Troilus. I. 640. Wake not a sleeping lion. The Countryman's New Commonwealth. (1647) Esveiller le chat qui dort. RABELAIS-Pantagruel. Wake not a sleeping wolf. Henry IV. Pt. II. 11 O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! COLERIDGE-Ancient Mariner. Pt. V. St. 1. 12 Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth! COLERIDGE-Dejection. An Ode. St. 8. 13 Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relieve my languish, and restore the light. SAMUEL DANIEL Sonnet. 46. To Delia. 14 Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes. GEORGE DARLEY-Waking Song. 15 Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, THOS. DEKKER-The Comedy of Patient Grissil. (Play written by DEKKER, HENRY CHETTLE, WM. HOUGHTON.) 16 Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,- SIDNEY DOBELL-A Sleep Song. 17 Two gates the silent house of Sleep adorn: One hour's sleep before midnight is worth Ah, let warm white dove-wings only three after. Round them sweep! LUCY LARCOM-Sleep Song. 19 For I am weary, and am overwrought With too much toil, with too much care distraught, And with the iron crown of anguish crowned. 20 Dreams of the summer night! Tell her, her lover keeps Watch! while in slumbers light She sleeps! My lady sleeps! Sleeps! LONGFELLOW-Spanish Student. Act I. Sc. 3. Serenade. St. 4. |