So whan it lyked hir to goon to reste, And voyded weren they that voyden oughte, She seyde, that to slepe wel hir leste.
And tho sche gan to gaspe and gone, And made signes manyon, And seide hir wordes therupon; So that with spellinge of hir charmes Sche tok Eson in bothe hire armes, And made him forto slepe faste, And him upon hire herbes caste.
This king by Louing Hir whome he neuer saw, fared like the man that in his slepe dreamed that he had in holde the thynge furthest from him.
The head of a Chyld whose name was Seruius Tullius lying a slepe in the palace, was seene to burn.
When the owners of Slepe Hall, the White family, pulled it down, they sold the materials of the building and also the site and grounds in building lots.
Mr. Norris tells us that the old Saxon name of St. Ives was Slepe, and that Oliver Cromwell is said to have resided as a farmer for five years in Slepe Hall, which was pulled down in the late forties.
At Slepe Hall, a picturesque building, she went to school in girlhood.
I may give here an anecdote connected with Slepe Hall which I have heard Mr. Watts-Dunton tell, and which would certainly make a good nucleus for a short story.
To slepe on the backe, vpryght, is vtterly to be abhorred'; Babees Book, ed.
Out sette the hevynesse of slepe vayne and longe, a quyete slepe Hors mis lentommissement du somne vain et long, ung taisible dormir is right necessary and delycious.
And after this maner spake she to Ioseph daye by daye: but he harkened not vnto her/ to slepe nere her or to be in her company.
Than sayde Rahel well/ let him slepe with the this nyghte/ for thy sonnes mandragoras.
And she caught him by the garment saynge: come slepe with me.
And if his hous be un-hiled, And reyne on his bedde, He seketh and seketh Til he slepe drye.
Ther he seighe his owhen wiif, Dame Heurodis his liif liif Slepe under an ympe tre; Bi her clothes he knewe that it was he.
By this tale ye may note also that they, the whiche fortune swetelye enbraceth, take theyr reste and slepe soundely; And contrarye wyse, they that bene oppressed with aduersite, watche sorowefullye whan they shulde slepe.
The morall boke, called Cato,[195] counsayleth vs to watche for the more parte: For moche slomber and slepe is the norisshinge of vice.
So on a tyme he caryed a lyttell boye his sonne on his shulder with him, and whan the chylde fell a slepe about ix of the clocke, the ale wyfe brought him to bed with her chyldren.
Hir frende which heard all this, and tooke pleasure in those wordes, went agayne to Bed with hir, into whose eyes no slepe that night coulde enter for the pleasure and sport they had with the poore Scholler.
Wyll you not kyll the Traitor, which these ten years space would not suffer me toslepe one quyet Night?
Whan I was leyd, and had myn eyen hed, I fel on slepe in-with an houre or two; Me mette how I lay in the medew tho, 210 To seen this flour that I so love and drede.
Why noldest thou han writen of Alceste, 530 *And leten Criseide been a-slepe and reste?
Hence Thynne prints them as follows:-- And therwithal I abrayde Out of myslepe halfe a frayde Remembri[n]g wel what I had sene.
But I wol turne again to Adriane That is with slepe for werinesse atake.
Whan I was layd, and had myn eyen hed, I fel a-slepe with-in an houre or two.
Whan I was layd, and had myn eyen hed, I fel a-slepe within an houre or two.
So scheslepe til afternone, 75 [Th]at vndertide was al ydone.
Sone so Iudas of slepe was awake, [Th]ritti platen of seluer from hym weren itake.
Aftyr thay slepe and toke her ese, wine, and then Of no man than̄ thay ne roght.
A litill slepe I wald fayne that we had; 495 ‘With yone men syne luk how we may ws glaid.
Thai grippyt him, than out off slepe he braid; “Quhat menys this?
Therfor I wol gon slepe an houre or tweye, 3685 And al the night than wol I wake and pleye.
They thanken him galpinge, by two, by three, And every wight gan drawe him to his reste, 355 As slepe hem bad; they toke it for the beste.
Me dremed al this night, pardee, An elf-queen shal my lemman be, And slepe under my gore.
When the scheref was on-slepe Dronken of wine and ale, Litul Johne and Moche for sothe Toke the way vnto the jale.
I myght never in this seven nyght No tyme to slepe ne wynke, Nother all these seven dayes 95 Nother ete ne drynke.
It is a place of great honour for Mr. Oliver Cromwell of Slepe House.
I have often been in Elizabeth Cromwell's room, both in Slepe House and in Ely.
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