Sorrow and sleep are often associated in OE verse: in the Phoenix, they are also connected with the grievous sickbed (swar leger). Solomon and Saturn offers some explanation, stating that sorg bið swarost byrðen, slæp bið deaðe gelicost ('sorrow is the sorest burden, sleep the most like death'). Judgement Day II calls sleep 'humiliating' (heanlic) because it suspends the activities of the mind.