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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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38. Aristotles Judgement, concerning Sleep.

Half of our Lifes, to gratefull Sleep we spare;
Thus half Their Time, Rich, and Poor, equal are.
Crœsus, and Irus, Rich alike, are found:
When silken slumbers, have their sences bound.