she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake ....
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine ....
He made him stoup perforce vnto his knee, / And do vnwilling worship to the Saint, / That on his shield depainted he did see ....