Close thine eyes and sleep secure
- DMI number:
- 7557
- First Line:
- Close thine eyes and sleep secure
- Last Line:
- No sleep so sweet as thine no rest so sure
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Charles I
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Forster (1980): 44.
- Author:
- Francis Quarles
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of 'A Good-Night' ('Close now thine eyes and rest secure'). Quarles, Fancies (1633): 164.
- First Line:
- A quiet conscience in a quiet breast
- Last Line:
- No sleep so sweet as thine no rest so sure
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The polite miscellany containing variety of food for the mind [T117528] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- On a quiet Conscience.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [March 1711]
- Page No(s):
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- On a quiet Conscience.
- Attribution:
- By K. Charles I
- Attributed To:
- Charles I
- Title:
- Miscellanea sacra: or, poems on divine & moral subjects [ESTC R22340]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Quiet Conscience
- Attribution:
- K. Charles I
- Attributed To:
- Charles I
- Title:
- Miscellanea sacra: or, poems on divine & moral subjects. the second edition [ESTC R9864]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Quiet Conscience
- Attribution:
- K. Charles I.
- Attributed To:
- Charles I
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. VIII. For August. [T146609]
- Page No(s):
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- On a Quiet Conscience.
- Attribution:
- By King Charles I.
- Attributed To:
- Charles I
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