"Madame se Couche, No. 28." "Very well, good night," said I, closing the door hastily, and not liking the farther scrutiny of the fellow's eye, as he fastened it on me, as if to search what precise degree of relationship existed between myself and my fair friend, whom he had called "Madame" purposely to elicit an observation from me.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Qui se Couche avec les chiens, se leve avec de puces.
"Bacon is Shake-Speare"
Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
He staggred at the blowe, his face grew pale, And on a Couche all feeble downe he fell, Swounding with anguish: deadly cold him tooke, As if his soule had then his lodging left.
"A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier"
Philippe de Mornay Robert Garnier