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Title:  Ar't asleepe husband? A boulster lecture; stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted, from the choicest flowers of philosophy, poesy, antient and moderne history. Illustrated with examples of incomparable constancy, in the excellent history of Philocles and Doriclea. By Philogenes Panedonius.
Author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
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to that philosophicall Maxime: Learne in prosperity to be silent, and not transported; in adversity to be patient, and not dejected; in neither to be discontented; in both, discreetly and philosophically affected.Here shall you likewise finde an other so humbly minded; for outward Habit so in∣different: as she professeth; No Habit can beseeme beauty, but what suites with decency. This might be instanced in those Vertuous Votaresses, who were so little ta∣ken with any outward weare: as they hated nothing more than such light phantastik attyres, which lay baits for others eyes. Modesty they onely affected both in beha∣viour and dresse: which begot them more honour, though lesse opinion in the eye of lightnesse.That Habit, said the Roman Citizen to hisWife, doth well become thee:Trust me, quoth she, I did not hold it so,till I heard it from thee.But, whereas this Subject of Temperance, whereof we now treate, is most expressed in abstaining from luscious fare, pretious li∣quors, amber-broaths; with other fo∣ments of sensuall delight, wee shall finde what rare and incredible austerity many 0