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Practical Works .
. . (London, 1838), I, 339;
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15.
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16.
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Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
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17.
Thomas A. Wehr, “A ‘Clock for All Seasons’ in the Human Brain,” in R. M. Buijs et al., eds.,
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New York Times
, Mar. 14, 1995; personal communications from Thomas Wehr, Dec. 23, 31, 1996.

18.
Warren E. Leary, “Feeling Tired and Run Down? It Could be the Lights,”
NYT
, Feb. 8, 1996; Charles A. Czeisler, “The Effect of Light on the Human Circadian Pacemaker,” in Derek J. Chadwick and Kate Ackrill, eds.,
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(Chichester, Eng., 1995), 254–302; William C. Dement,
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(New York, 1999), 98–101. Wehr, to his credit, has speculated that other conditions in his experiments, apart from darkness, might have produced a bimodal pattern of sleep—such as boredom or the enforced rest of his subjects. “Further research will be necessary,” he has written, “to determine whether, and to what extent, darkness per se or factors associated with the dark condition” were “responsible for the differences that we observed in the subjects’ sleep.” (Thomas A. Wehr et al., “Conservation of Photoperiod-responsive Mechanisms in Humans,”
American Journal of Physiology
265 [1993], R855.) But plainly such factors did not normally prevail in the voluminous number of preindustrial allusions to first and second sleep. Rest in those instances was neither involuntary nor the consequence of monotonous surroundings.

19.
Dec. 14, 1710, George Aitken, ed.,
The Tatler
(1899; rpt. edn., New York, 1970), IV, 337, 339; Apr. 9, 1664, Pepys,
Diary
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Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774–1776
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20.
Edward MacCurdy, ed.,
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
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21.
Boorde,
Compendyous Regyment
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22.
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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
(New York, 1965), II, 241; Robert Boyle,
Works
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Eight Chirurgical Treatises
... (London, 1705), 505; Lyne Walter,
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23.
Tobias Venner,
Via Recta ad Vitam Longam
... (London, 1637), 272; Walter Pope,
The Life of the Right Reverend Father in God Seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury
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An Historical and Biographical Dictionary
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24.
Jane Allison, Mar. 15, 1741, Assi 45/22/2/64B; Stephen Duck,
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25.
Notes and Queries,
2
nd
Ser., 5, no. 115 (Mar. 13, 1858), 207; Tobias Smollett,
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26.
Franklin,
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27.
JRAI
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Herbert’s Devotions
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The Happy Ascetick, or, the Best Exercise
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28.
Nicolas Remy,
Demonolatry
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29.
Horneck,
Happy Ascetick
, 415; M. Lopes de Almeida,
Diálogos de D. Frei Amador Arrais
(Porto, 1974), 19;
The Whole Duty of Prayer
(London, 1657), 13; Richard and John Day,
A Booke of Christian Praiers .
. . (London, 1578), 440–441; R. Sherlock,
The Practical Christian: or, the Devout Penitent
... (London, 1699), 322–323; Frederick James Furnivall, ed.,
Phillip Stubbes’s Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere’s Youth,
a.d.
1583
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30.
Cowper,
The Works
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HPL
II, 357;
Mid-Night Thoughts
.

31.
Dorothy Rhodes, Mar. 18, 1650,
York Depositions,
28. See also Geoffroy de La Tour-Landry,
Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry
(London, 1906), fo. 3b.; Jan. 4, 1728, Sanderson, Diary.

32.
The Deceyte of Women
... (n.p., 1568); Helen Simpson, ed. and trans.,
The Waiting City: Paris, 1782–88. Being an Abridgement of Louis-Sébastian Mercier’s “Le Tableau de Paris
” (Philadelphia, 1933), 76; Aviel Orenstein, ed.,
Mishnah Berurah: Laws Concerning Miscellaneous Blessings, the Minchah Service, the Ma’ariv Service and Evening Conduct
... (Jerusalem, 1989), 435.

33.
Laurent Joubert,
Popular Errors
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The Haven of Health
(London, 1588), 252. See also Boorde,
Compendyous Regyment;
Orenstein, ed.,
Mishnah Berurah
, 441.

34.
Cardano,
The Book of My Life
(New York, 1962), 82; Thomas Jefferson,
Writings
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Enchiridion
... (London, 1644), ch. 54.

35.
Everie Woman in Her Humor
(London, 1609); Wilson,
English Proverbs
, 566. See also July 12, 1702, Cowper, Diary; May 24, 1595, Richard Rogers and Samuel Ward,
Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries
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36.
Oliver Lawson Dick, ed.,
Aubrey’s Brief Lives
(London, 1950), 131; Crusius,
Nocte
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GM
18 (1748), 108;
G and NDA
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Christopher Pinchbeck and His Family
(Ashford, Eng., 1976), 29.

37.
Régnier-Bohler, “Imagining the Self,” 390; Edmund Spenser,
The Works
... , ed. Edwin Greenlaw (Baltimore, 1947), II, 249; Richard Brome,
The Northern Lasse
(London, 1632); William Davenant,
The Platonick Lovers
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Works
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38.
Roy Harvey Pearce, ed.,
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches
... (New York, 1982), 200–201; John Wade,
Redemption of Time
... (London, 1692), 187. Worried by the potential for masturbation, another moralist cautioned that a sleeper “accustom himself to rise immediately after his first sleep” (S.A
.D.
Tissot,
Onanism: Or a Treatise upon the Disorders Produced by Masturbation
... [London, 1767], 122).

39.
Mercier
, The Night Cap
(Philadelphia, 1788), 4.

40.
Tertullian,
Apologetical Works
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Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum
(London, 1879), 207; Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales
, 403–404; Mar. 11, 1676, Jane Lead,
A Fountain of Gardens
... (London, 1697), 121; Jan. 6, 1677, Heywood,
Diaries
, I, 340; Peter Corbin and Douglas Sedge, eds.,
Ram Alley
(Nottingham, 1981), 56.

41.
Hubert,
Egypts Favourite. The History of Joseph
... (London, 1631). See also, for example, William Vaughan,
Naturall and Artificial Directions for Health
... (London, 1607), 55.

42.
Looker-On
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
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43.
Thomas Tryon,
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... (London, 1689), 9;
WR or UJ
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Religion and the Decline of Magic
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44.
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45.
“Somnifer,”
PA
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PP
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46.
Thomas Johnson, trans.,
The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey
(London, 1649), 27; Ripa,
Nocturno Tempore
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The Touchstone of Complexions
... , trans. T. Newton (London, 1576), 113–114.

47.
Feltham,
Resolves
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Wisdom’s Dictates: or, Aphorisms & Rules
... (London, 1691), 68.

48.
Sept. 12, 1644, Josselin,
Diary
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The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud
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Diary
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49.
Lemnius,
Touchstone
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Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses
80 (2000), 255; Aug. 15, 1665, Feb. 7, 1669, Pepys,
Diary
, VI, 191, IX, 439; Cannon, Diary, 344. The penis routinely becomes erect during a dream, regardless of its content; in fact, men on average experience “four to five erections a night (when they are asleep), each lasting from five to ten minutes” (Kenneth Jon Rose,
The Body in Time
[New York, 1989], 54, 95).

50.
Charles Carlton, “The Dream Life of Archbishop Laud,”
History Today
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The Family Life of Ralph Josselin, a Seventeenth-Century Clergyman
(Cambridge, 1970), 183–187.

51.
Cardano,
Book of My Life
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A Letter Book and Abstract of Out Services, Written during the Years 1743–1751
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The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
(London, 1975), XXI, 203.

52.
Torrington,
Diaries
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The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee
(London, 1842), 31, 59.

53.
Jan. 2, 1686, Sewall,
Diary
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The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly,
a.d.
1671–1693
(Manchester, 1894), 100; Jean Bousquet,
Les Thèmes du Rêve dans la Littérature Romantique
(Paris, 1964).