Adverb

(en adverb)

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 "