• Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

    Abraham Cowley: Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;
And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
    Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...”, p.181