Where (play, sonnet) did he write about "sleep knitting up the raveled
sleeve of care?

jcn1234 --

The phrase you have in mind is "sleep that knits up the ravell'd
sleeve of care."  It occurs in Act II, Scene II of Macbeth and is
spoken by the title character.  Here it is in context:

"Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast,--"


Here is a link to the text of that scene:
MIT Tech: Macbeth: Act 2 Scene 2
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/macbeth/macbeth.2.2.html


And here is a link to a page with links to the entire text of the play:
MIT Tech: Macbeth
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/macbeth/


Search Strategy:

I recognized the quote and knew that the spelling of the key word was
"ravell'd" or "ravelled."   I confirmed my recollection that the play
was Macbeth and found the act and scene number with the following
Google search:

ravell'd OR ravelled shakespeare
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=ravell%27d+OR+ravelled+shakespeare


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