Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Compare the same, Proverbs 6:10.

So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed man. 'At first slowly, step by step, like a traveler, without being felt, comes debt and diminution of one's inheritance. But soon poverty attacks, like an armed warrior, with a strong and, irresistible hand; as the ancients rightly said, 'Necessity is the strongest of things, therefore we must meet the traveler, fortify ourselves against the armed man' (Bacon, in 'Poli Synopsis').

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