abed - What does it mean?

Adverb

(en-adv)

In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616),(Twelfth Night), II, iii

Not to be abed after midnight

*{{quote-book|year=1922|author=(Michael Arlen)|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days]|chapter=Ep./4/2

|passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed .}}

To childbed

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616), (Titus Andronicus), IV, ii

"I mean, she's brought a-bed "