I am as sober as a judge.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 263.

And he that will to bed go sober

Falls with the leaf still in October.

John Fletcher (1576-1625): The Bloody Brother. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;

In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1690-1762): A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice.

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray

Had in her sober livery all things clad;

Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,

They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,

Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;

She all night long her amorous descant sung;

Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament

With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led

The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,

Rising in clouded majesty, at length

Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,

And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 598.

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

John Dryden (1631-1701): The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2.

And he that will to bed go sober

Falls with the leaf still in October.

John Fletcher (1576-1625): The Bloody Brother. Act ii. Sc. 2.