Richard III went out at twilight to reconnoiter; he found a
sentinel fast asleep at the outposts. The King promptly stabbed
him to the heart and left upon his breast a paper with the stern
inscription, “I found him asleep and I leave him so.”
Sooner or later death, or something equally to be feared, overtakes
every man who forsakes his duty and falls asleep at his post. (Text.)
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=Vigilance in Nature=--See NATURE’S AGGRESSIVENESS.