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Quotation from Holy Sonnet X: "Death, be not proud" by John Donne
“From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow”
Holy Sonnet X: "Death, be not proud", Lines 5-6 (Grierson 1912, original spelling)
The argument from sleep: if sleep, death's mere image, is pleasant, death itself must be more so. Then here means than.
Citation: "From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow" — John Donne, Holy Sonnet X: "Death, be not proud", Lines 5-6 (Grierson 1912, original spelling). (id death-be-not-proud-q2)
Portrait: John Donne (copy after an original of 1616), After Isaac Oliver, Public domain.
