There are cases in which we may pretend to sleep; but the Wittol rule has some sense in it, Non omnibus dormio.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Shakespere would have felt, more fully than Heywood, the danger of presenting his hero something of a Wittol without sufficient passion of religion or affection to justify his tolerance.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
Here's curtain time close upon us, and you come like a Wittol scattering your mad questions like the crazed Ophelia her flowers.
"No Great Magic"
Fritz Reuter Leiber