But care maims slumber, and the nights seem long."

ASPHALION.

"Didst thou e'er study dreams? For visions fair

I saw last night; and fairly thou should'st share

The wealth I dream of, as the fish I catch.

Now, for sheer sense, I reckon few thy match;

And, for a vision, he whose motherwit

Is his sole tutor best interprets it.

And now we've time the matter to discuss:

For who could labour, lying here (like us)