O sleep O gentle sleep nature's soft nurse
- DMI number:
- 41904
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- O sleep O gentle sleep nature's soft nurse
- Last Line:
- Uneasy sits his robe that wears a crown
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama, Soliloquy, Extract / snippet from longer work, Blank verse, and Address
- Themes:
- Sleep, Social order, and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract, with variants, from 2 Henry IV Act 3 Scene 1.
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- As the King sometimes in a Poem of his [...] wittily complained
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. 2 Henry IV.
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