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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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selfe most his owne, when he was relin∣quish't and forsaken of his owne: and con∣firming her true affection with this resolu∣tion: That she was not given him to leave him, or to share with him only in prosperity, but in what fortune soever should befall him, to keepe him company.The like constancy of love, and comfort in advice shewed Sulpitia to her, when she plainely told him: What, though For∣tune leave you, she who loves you best, and whom you should love best cannot leave you? Should you be wholly miserable, she will part stakes wlth you, to make you lesse mise∣rable.Secondly, for such, whose brave and well-composed temper would not suffer their masculine spirits to stoupe to any Dis∣asters: we shall furnish you with imitable patternes in that kinde: A lovely Lydia, who could with Medea in the Tragedy, expresse her selfe nobly, and make death and danger the least of her feares.Who can be forc'd, she knowes not how to dye;Honour knowes how to suffer, so doe I.This that brave-spirited Martia shew'd good proofe of, curing all threats with this exquisite receipt: I know well how to pay my 0