Macbeth and SLEEP


Banquo:  2.1 (p. 49):  "A heavy summons lies like lead upon me/  And yet I would not sleep.  Merciful powers , / Restrain in me the cursèd thoughts that nature / Gives way to in repose"

Macbeth:  2.1 (p. 53):  "Now o'er the one half world / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse/ The curtained sleep."  

Macbeth:   2.2 (p. 57): "Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!  Macbeth does murder sleep' -- the innocent sleep, /Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, /The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,/ Chief nourisher in life's feast."

Macbeth:   3.2 (p. 93): "But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, / Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep / In the affliction of these terrible dreams / That shake us nightly.  Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, / Than on the torture of the mind to lie / In restless ecstasy.  Duncan is in his grave, / After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.  / Treason has done his worst; nor steel or poison, / Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing / Can touch him further."