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" How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest... "
A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY, FROM THE YEAR 1755 TO THE TREATY OF ... - Page 131
by CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B. - 1804
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, { husht with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the...
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The Sovereign Flower: On Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism, Together with ...

George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...Richard III and Richard II, with strength and weakness, determination and repentance, intermingling: Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the...
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Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management

John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - Business & Economics - 2002 - 321 pages
...sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs . . . Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state . . . O thou dull...
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AS English Literature for AQA B

Tony Childs, Jackie Moore - English literature - 2003 - 166 pages
...sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather,...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the...
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Henry IV, Part 2

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 404 pages
...frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetf ulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,...
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The Second Part of King Henry IV

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2007 - 36 pages
...Sleep! 5 Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather Sleep...in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee 10 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,...
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Romanticism After Auschwitz

Sara Emilie Guyer - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 392 pages
...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...
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