William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. Come, Sleep By John Fletcher (1579–1625) (?)
COME, 1 Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Lock me in delight awhile; Let some pleasing dreams beguile All my fancies; that from thence I may feel an influence, 5 All my powers of care bereaving! Though but a shadow, but a sliding Let me know some little joy! We that suffer long annoy Are contented with a thought 10 Through an idle fancy wrought: O let my joys have some abiding!
Note 1. The Woman Hater, 1607, act iii. sc. 1., by Beaumont and Fletcher. Mr. Bullen seems to believe that this song was written by Beaumont. [back ]
