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" How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 470
by William Shakespeare - 1839
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 674 pages
...speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...Than in the pe'rfum'd chambers of the great, Under the(19) canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull god, why...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 602 pages
...— [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O sleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfutn'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest...
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Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius ..., Part 152, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 596 pages
...Bogens • gäuzte. How many thousand of ray poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! — О sleep! 0 gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Thau in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds...
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! 0 Sleep ! 0 gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Under the...
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The book of recitations [ed.] by C.W. Smith

Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...SLEEP. Henry IV. Part II. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep, 0 gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the...
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The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith

Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment-bonds. SHAKSPEAKE. HENRY IV.'s SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 754 pages
...The folio, 1623, was reprinted from one of the complete copies, and contains the whole of the text. That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the pcrfum'd chambers of the great, Under high canopies of costly state ', And lull'd with sound of sweetest...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1859 - 576 pages
...speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — 0 Sleep ! O gentle Sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the pcrfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...and modesty, Now in his ashes honour: Peace be with him! SOLILOQUY OF HENRY IV. ON SLEEP. SHAKSPERK. How many thousand of my poorest subjects, Are at this...And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, slesp, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd wtth buzzing night-flies...
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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakspeare

Henry Reed - 1860 - 882 pages
...sleeping city, gives utterance to that beautiful apostrophe to sleep : ousand of my poorest subjects iur asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse,...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Tinder the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest...
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