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with delectable odours ; and though in the bed of 

 Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the 

 ghost of a rose. 



Night, which Pagan theology could make the 

 daughter of Chaos, affords no advantage to the descrip- 

 tion of order ; although no lower than that mass can 

 we derive its genealogy. All things began in order, 

 so shall they end, and so shall they begin again ; 

 according to the ordainer of order and mystical 

 mathematicks of the city of heaven. 



Though Somnus in Homer be sent to rouse up 

 Agamemnon, I find no such effects in these drowsy 

 approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer, 

 were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up 

 in America, and they are already past their first sleep 

 in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which 

 freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbering 

 thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and 

 as some conjecture all shall awake again. 



