I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Ver. 7. I watch] I can as little sleep as eat, Psalms 102:4. That nurse of nature, and sweet parenthesis of men's griefs and cares, sleep, departeth from me,
Nec membris dat cura soporem.
And am as a sparrow] That hath lost his mate, so have I mine associates, which is a sore loss, for optimum solatium sodalitium.