...subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighten thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? - Shakespeare, (Henry IV. Part 2) He that sleeps feels not the tooth ache. - Shakespeare, (Cymbeline)...

...Oxford University Press, 1904), 202. 23. In the apostrophe to sleep in 2 Henry IV, King Henry asks: Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushedw1th buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the...