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;