Macbeth does murther sleep.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2. Lloyd.—The Actor.
And hast thou kill’d him sleeping?
Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III. Scene 2. (Hermia to Demetrius.)
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
Scott.—Lord of the Isles, Canto V. Stanza 21.
Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,
And look on death itself.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 3. (Macduff.)
Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?
To lie in dead oblivion, losing half
The fleeting moments of
too short a life;
Who would in such a gloomy state remain
Longer than Nature craves?
Thomson.—Summer.
SLEEP.—Never sleep the sun up.
Rise to prevent the sun.
Vaughan.—Rules and Lessons, Verse 2.
How many sleep, who kept the world awake.
Young.—Night IX. Line 58.
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower’d,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.
Campbell.—The Soldier’s Dream, Verse 1.