As some stick not to say that he enjoyed her there.
Drayton, Polyolbion, vi. (1612).
To sleep like Endymion, to sleep long and soundly. Endymion requested of Jove permission to sleep as long as felt inclined. Hence the proverb, Endymionis somnum dormire. Jean Ogier de Gombaud wrote in French a romance or prose poem called Endymion (1624), and one of the best paintings of A.L. Girodet is "Endymion." Cowley, referring to Gombaud's romance, says:
While there is a people or a sun,
Endymion's story with the moon shall run.
John Keats, in 1818, published his Endymion (a poetic romance), and the criticism of the Quarterly Review was falsely said to have caused his death.
Endym´ion. So Wm. Browne calls Sir Walter Raleigh, who was for a time in disgrace with Queen Elizabeth, whom he calls "Cyn´thia."
The first note that I heard I soon was wonne
To think the sighes of fair Endymion,
The subject of whose mournful heavy lay,