Down Bed

My condition has undergone a further amelioration, from having the mattress laid above the down-bed; it was like to choke me, besides that I lately read somewhere horrible things about the ❋ Unknown (1883)

Oh, she does not jump off her down-bed on to a flowerbed. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

A down-bed pleases awhile, but soon we are weary and would rise. ❋ Unknown (1692)

There Ponocrates was of opinion that they should make this fair orator drink again; and seeing he had showed them more pastime, and made them laugh more than a natural soul could have done, that they should give him ten baskets full of sausages, mentioned in his pleasant speech, with a pair of hose, three hundred great billets of logwood, five-and-twenty hogsheads of wine, a good large down-bed, and a deep capacious dish, which he said were necessary for his old age. ❋ Unknown (2002)

But then there are dainty green graffs in Saint Cuthbert's kirkyard, whare ane may sleep as if they were in a down-bed, till they hear the lavrock singing up in the air as high as the Castle; whereas, and behold, these London kirkyards are causeyed with through-stanes, panged hard and fast thegither; and my cloak being something threadbare, made but a thin mattress, so I was fain to give up my bed before every limb about me was crippled. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Cuthbert’s kirkyard, whare ane may sleep as if they were in a down-bed, till they hear the lavrock singing up in the air as high as the ❋ Unknown (2004)

Gae, mak for her a fine down-bed, and lay her at the wa’.’ ❋ Frank Sidgwick (N/A)

Expect it not Ye who till noon upon a down-bed lie, Indulging feverish sleep. " ❋ Pye Henry Chavasse (1844)