Possible Clues:

• Take to the bed with fiction in Ulster
• Now idle, adjusted to a spell in retirement?
• Rest needed by stand-up? Just the opposite
• Command to Fido
• Prepare for a time out?
• Did bear false witness, then confess rest
• Song now being played? Put your feet up
• Romantic song's now disturbed rest
• Now idle, resolved to this?
• The rest, having told an untruth, confess