Samuel Daniel, Spenser's successor as "voluntary Laureate."
"Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to Death."—Fletcher, Valentinian.
"The death of each day's life."—Shakspeare, Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 2.
"Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed."—Bishop Ken.
"We thought her sleeping when she died;
And dying, when she slept."—Hood.
"Somne levis, quanquam certissima mortis imago
Consortem cupio te tamen esse tori;