Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour’s slumber, it cannot be bought: of so beautiful a shape is it, that though a man lie with an Empress, his heart cannot beat quiet till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other ….

Thomas Dekker (c. 1572–1632) English dramatist and pamphleteer

The Gull’s Hornbook, ch. 2 (1609)