Indolence, Hero of
Thomson's laziness humorously illustrates the folly of indolence.
The author of "The Castle of Indolence" paid homage in that admirable poem to the master-passion of his own easy nature. Thomson was so excessively lazy, that he is recorded to have been seen standing at a peach-tree, with both his hands in his pockets, eating the fruit as it grew. At another time, being discovered in bed at a very late hour in the day, when he was asked why he did not rise, his answer was, "Trotch, mon, I see one motive for rising."
— Percy