InspiringQuotes

William Shakespeare Quotes:

Ocupation: Poet

Life: 1564 - April 23, 1616

Birthday: 1564

Death: April 23

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

topic: Nature, Sleep, Night, Uneasy, Sound Sleep, Eyelids, Sweet Sleep, Lulls, Pallets, Canopy, Funny Insomnia, Funny Sleep, Funny Sleeping, Hush, Sleeping In, I Can't Sleep, Sleepiness

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