Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep!! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak...'it's the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even.************** (Cervantes)
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; that it is a refreshing to the body in his life; that it is a preparing of the soul for the next. (John Donne)
