...or sarcenet ever was." Again, ibid. : " That in the handling feels as soft as any sleave." STEEVENS. The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath \...minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast* ; — Sleave appears to have signified coarse, sofi, unwrought silk. Seta grossolana,...

...can live without the death of sleep." STEEVENS. " Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, " The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, " Balm of hurt minds." Is it not probable that Shakspeare remembered the following verses in Sir Philip Sydney's Astrophel...

...th" afflicted are thy charms ! EUHIP. BY HUGHES. Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,...minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast! SHAKSPEARB. Thou silent power, whose welcome sway Charms every anxious thought away,...

...Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, e The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief naurisher in life's feast ,Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried, Sleep...

...womanish: Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd : but bred a dog. SLEEP. Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care....minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ! Do not omit the heavy offer of it : It seldom visits sorrow ; when it doth, It is a...

...Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave * of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,...minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried, Sleep no more .' to all the house...

...more! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave\ of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,...minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast;— Macb. Still it cried, Sleep no more ! to all the Lady M. What do you mean? house:...

...sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravett'd sleave of care, The death of each day!* life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Stillitcried, Sleep no more! to dl the house Glamis...

...no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep. — The innocent sleep : — Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care — The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, — Chief nunrisher in life's feast, — * • It has been observed by Mr Combe, that this faculty,...

...does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the rare/I'd sleave of care, The death oj r is not mov' second course, Chief n ourisher in life 's feast ; — LadyM. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried,...