And I into a Trance most deepe 60 Can cast the Birds that they shall sleepe When fain'st they would be singing.
In me it speakes, whether I sleepe or wake, And when by meanes to driue it out I try, With greater torments then it me doth take, And tortures me in most extreamity.
But for still musicke, we will keepe The Wren, and Titmouse, which to sleepe 110 Shall sing the Bride, when shee's alone The rest into their chambers gone.
Angels her eye-lids keepe All harts surprizing, Which looke whilst she doth sleepe Like the Sunnes rising: She alone of her kinde Knoweth true measure 290 And her vnmatched mind Is Heauens treasure: Cho.
Ile cure thy ague instantly: I shall, Like some insatiate drunkard of the age, But take a cup to much and next day sleepe An hower more then ordinary.
Travellers that are weary have sleepe led in a string.
Persuade me I can hate Sleepe after tedious watching, or reiect The wholesome ayre when I've bin long choakd up With sicklie foggs: sooner shall-- Lady.
Come hither, leave your fooling & tell me truely: didst sleepe to night or no?
Sleepe on, sweet Child, the whilst thy wreatched father Prepares him to the yron sleepe of death.
I could teare My eyelids of, that durst let in a Mist So darke and so destroying, must I sleepe At such a tyme that the Divell must be over Watche too!
If shee be a sleepe she was not us'd to talke thus: She has some hideous dreame.
O Mistres Dority, tis e'ne long of you, for betweenesleepe and awake your remembrance came to me this morning, and Thomas was up presently.
On this I threw me headlong on the sea To sleepe my tyme out in the bottome off it; Whence you have puld me up to be a scorne To all the World.
Why then my hornes are his hornes, whether I wake or sleepe Pro.
It's no matter for that; so shee sleepe not in her talke Sp.
Cardanus's Comfort: "Is not our sleepe (O foole) of death an image playne?
Like ivie they cling close about Cornelius' bulke; till sleepe surprize them, oblivion divide them, and brave Cornelius guide them to his tub.
Beating and hanging are terrors to mee: For the life to come, I sleepe out the thought of it.
Short let thy sleepe at noone be, Or rather let it none be.
Sleep, in the name of Morpheus, your bellyfull, or (rather) sleepe till you heare your belly grombles and waxeth empty.
As soone as I judged them to be fast a sleepe I passed by them into the court where I found all the doors locked and the walls so high that by no meanes I could gett over them.
Let me, faire Ladie, if you be at leisure, revell with your sweetnes, and raile uppon that cowardly Conjurer, that hath cast me or congealed mee rather into an unkinde sleepe and polluted my carcasse.
I dote so, that I make but one sleepe all the night But what neede all these wordes?
It possesseth all those of which it takes hold with a loathsome sloathfulnesse, that even to eate they would be content to change with sleepe and rest, which is the most pernicious enemie in this sickness that is known.
But dead rather: For Nature doth abhorre to make his bed With the defunct, or sleepe vpon the dead.
These beasts in the day time sleepe in hollow trees, in the moone shine night they goe to feede on clammes at a low tide, by the Sea side, where the English hunt them with their dogges.
Sonnes let it be your charge, as it is ours, To attend the Emperours person carefully: I haue bene troubled in my sleepe this night, But dawning day new comfort hath inspir'd.
And mine I promise you, were it not for shame, Well could I leaue our sport to sleepe a while Quin.
And welcome Nephews from succesfull wars, You that suruiue and you that sleepe in Fame: Faire Lords your Fortunes are all alike in all, That in your Countries seruice drew your Swords.
Pray Master Barnardine, awake till you are executed, and sleepe afterwards Ab.
Oh, the better Sir: for he that drinkes all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleepe the sounder all the next day.
The city is very safe from theeues, for the Portugall merchants sleepe in the streets, or vnder porches, for the great heat which is there, and yet they neuer had any harme in the night.
Betime when sleepe is sweete, the chattringe swallowe cries.
Coventry's part, and so to bed and to sleepe soundly.
Then renuing my oulde cogitations: as I lay vnder this mightie Oke: I was oppressed with emynent sleepe ouer all my members: where againe I dreamed in this sorte.
Not a iest had they to keepe their auditors from sleepe but of swill and draffe, yes now and then the seruant put his hand into the dish before his master, and almost choakt himselfe, eating slouenly and rauenously to cause sport.
I must not place a volume in the precincts of a pamphlet, sleepe an houre or two, and dreame that Turney and Turwin is wonne, that the king is shipt againe into England, and that I am close at harde meate at Windsore or at Hampton court.
Ile go sleepe if I can: if I cannot, Ile raile against all the first borne of Egypt Amy.
With Lawiers in the vacation: for they sleepe betweene Terme and Terme, and then they perceiue not how time moues Orl.
They are told that the ffrench are weary & will sleepe alsoe awhile.
A number of french entertaines them, keeping them from sleepe in dancing & singing, for that is the custome.
That beast was a sleepe upon one of the trees under which wee weare to goe; neither of us ever seeing such a creature weare astonished.
The sleepe that we tooke that night did not make our heads guidy, although we had need of reposeing.
Take great courage, brethren, sleepe not; the ennemy is att hand.
Their belly full, their mind without care, wearyed to the utmost of the formost day's journey, fell a sleepe securely, leaning their armes up and downe without the least danger.
Att night I could not sleepe for because of the great paine.
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