"Beds in the East"@en . . . . "Beds in the East is the third novel in Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy The Long Day Wanes. It was published in 1959.The title is taken from a line spoken by Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, scene 6: \"The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,/That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;/For I have gain'd by 't.\""@en . . . .