sleep. Necessity cureth most of the poor of this: but many of the rich are guilty of it. If you ask me, ‘What is excess?’ I answer, ‘All that is more than is needful to our health and business.’ So much as is necessary to these, I reprehend not: and therefore the infirm may take more than the healthful; and the old more than the young: and those that find that an hour’s sleep more will not hinder them, but further them in their work, so that they shall do the more, and not the less, as being unfit