...vile ?" for never was human conception more sweetly embodied than in the opening apostrophe, " Sleep ! gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ?" But indeed the whole speech is so full of truth and beauty, comes home so closely to the feelings...

...thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O gentle sleep ! ' Nature's soft nurs« ! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, Sleep, lie»t thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night flies...

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...necessary to endue his most solemn and inactive scenes : the very first line is an exclamation — o. Or «o ?— much les». ! and the whole speech is divided between exclamation and interrogation, the liveliest forms of expression...

...come, bid them o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them : Make good speed. — [Ex. Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...

...him. How the rogue roared! (He exits with the moneybags. Henry I y alone in his throne room.) HENRY. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this...have I frighted thee That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? The peasant, happy in his state, lies down....

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...profile, lit by the light from the window and shadowed by its bars. H2ni.i.4-31 K1NG: How many thousands of my poorest subjects / Are at this hour asleep!...sleep, O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse, how have 1 frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down / And steep my senses in forgetful...

...With kingship come polished perturbation and golden care. The crown is accompanied by unquiet rest: 'How many thousand of my poorest subjects/ Are at this hour asleep!': // HIV, III. i. 4-5). It is accompanied by mistrust ('He shall think that thou, which knowest the way/...

...favourite Came, bk. 4, set. 1 2 (1963). 4 О sleep, О gentle sleep. Nature's soft nurse, how have 1 ntellhٝ, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). English dramalisl. poet. King Henry, in Henry IV, Pari 2, ad 3, se....