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Quotation from The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
“I come to bring him sleep. ’Tis such as you, That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh At each his needless heavings,—such as you Nourish the cause of his awaking. I Do come with words as med’cinal as true, Honest as either, to purge him of that humour That presses him from sleep”
The Winter's Tale, Act 2, Scene 3 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling))
Told that the king has not slept, Paulina presents truth-telling as medicine for a humour that keeps him awake, in contrast to the courtiers who indulge him.
Citation: "I come to bring him sleep. ’Tis such as you, That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh At each his needless heavings,—such as you Nourish the cause of his awaking. I Do come with words as med’cinal as true, Honest as either, to purge him of that humour That presses him from sleep" — William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act 2, Scene 3 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling)). (id the-winters-tale-q6)
