So, we'll go no more a roving the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights--had knocked me up a little. But it is over--and it is now Lent, with all its abstinence and sacred music... Though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the corner of twenty nine." The poem seems to have been suggested in part by the refrain of a Scottish song known as "The Jolly Beggar." The Jolly Beggar was published in Herd's "Scots Songs" in 1776, 41 years before Byron's letter, and goes partially
Sleep No More (The Comsat Angels album) when the offices were closed!" Fellows felt the album "Sleep No More" had a unique quality among the band's work: "The only [album] which had a 'thread' through it was "Sleep No More", the 'thread' was the sound we wanted to get." Critics recognized it as a great follow-up to "Waiting for a Miracle". AllMusic later said, ""Sleep No More" is certainly more powerful, and it's also a greater achievement. Here The Comsat Angels became one of the era's exceptional bands." In a 1981 review, Mark Cooper of "Sounds" wrote that it was "an album that is head and shoulders