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A16650	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.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, ill.	1640 (1640)	STC 3555; ESTC S106153	141,213	368

roughly with her veile or ho●sing up her skirts and scourge those Aeolian scouts for being so saucy She wonders that Venus should be for a Goddesse recorded and she never remembred When she sees our countrey-Beauties with a scornefull pity she lookes on them and returnes her judgement thus Alas poore home-spun beauties A civill requisite curtsy shee will not deagne to bestow on more deserving lips than her owne with a seeming aversenesse she forgets that winning salute of those Noble Trojan Ladies holding it too high a favour to afford a lip to the compleatest Lover This that passionate Amorist well discovered in this Canto Beautious was Shee but too coy Glorious in her tyres and toyes But too way-ward for that Boy Who in Action Spheard his joyes Love-tales shee could deagne to heare And relate them weeke by weeke But to kisse when you came neare Lippe was turn'd into the cheeke Beauty that is too precize Though it should attractive be Darting beamelins from her eyes 'T were no Adamant to me Shee it is I onely love Shee it is I onely seeke That do'es bill it like a Dove And will make her lippe her cheeke Honour is a rising baite But not rudely to be pull'd Give me Her at any rate Who loves to be kist and cull'd Countrey Ducks scorne to be nice To those Swaines their fancy seeke Though their honour they doe prize Lippe they tender not their cheeke Thus can Sheepheards Swainlings love And expresse what they desire Live to love and love to prove Height and h●at of Cupids fire When a Sill●bub they make While their youngsters woo and seeke For their love they may partake Of their lippe as well as cheeke Now did that incensed Gentleman shew lesse passion upon the like re-greet from a disdainfull Lady whose long practise in painting and delicate tooth together had so corrupted her breath as Cocytus could not have a worser savour A Lady gave me once her cheeke to kisse Being no lesse than I my selfe did wish For this I 'le say and binde it with an oath Her cheeke tastes sweeter farre than do'e's her mouth But there is nothing so much discovereth the vaine Pride of these Beauties as a coynesse to their Servants in their wooing and winning If they affect you that affection must bee so shrowded and shadowed as Lynceus eyes could not disclose it Walke from them their eyes are on you walke to them their eyes are from you There is no argument be it never so well-relishing nor sorting with their liking that they will give eare to no posture be it never so gracefull they will afford an eye to Opposition suiteth best with their condition To a stranger they will shew themselves familiar to you whose intimacy hath got a roome in their hearts they will seeme a stranger If you appeare merry it must bee expounded trifling childishnesse if grave Stoick sullennesse It were a gift above apprehension in every particular to fit their humour And yet they must be humour'd or they are lost for ever This would make any man thinke if he cast his cards aright that a mans only sweet Bed-fellow were a Bed without a fellow But that would spoile all humane society better an inconvenience than a mischiefe better one perish than a multitude Beauty is no such Phoenix as she can generate from her owne ashes Suppose her then disdainfull thing resolved to take one though with a queasy stomach and such an one as of all her choice shee could not entertaine a worse And this youth she rather affects because all her friends dis-relish him For she measures not her Love by others discretion nor her fancy by the line of others direction Shee is too wise to bee taught and if she repent it shall be at leasure and if shee have cause to put finger ith'eye she will chuse rather to dye than discover it to any other Yet for all this through a seeming indifferency and coldnesse of affection the marriage-day must be protracted by them till they cannot endure Whale-bone becomming as Pregnant as Nature could make them This makes me remember the Tale of the Westerne Pedler who having one daughter was sought after by many amorous Suiters but one amongst the rest she preferred in her choice feeding his longing appetite with hopes and following her fathers course who had got in his time as much by Consideration as Principall told him ever and anon that shee would consider of it till at last her Consideration falling into a Conception and being asked the selfe-same question she never returned any other than that she would still take it into her Consideration Oh quoth her Suiter being guilty of the Bill consider your pregnant present state and your Consideration Comater comes too late But of all others there is nothing to be admired more in this their trifling with Love than those nice conditions they stand upon which though their hearts stand indifferent whether they be ever observed or no they will peremptorily conclude without assent to such conditions no Bargaine Now the principall Article must be that He who is prickt to be the man must hold his Distance Too much familiarity breeds contempt and to avoid this He must observe a kind of reverend state in her presence Give her way in all arguments of discourse And for as much as her brave disposition retaines in it selfe thoughts of Majesty shee must have her Side for her selfe and her women or what Male she pleaseth divided Beds seasons of repairing one to another that every new visit may seeme a fresh kind of wooing In which Encounter as he is to shew himselfe importunate in his Suite so is his spouse to shew her selfe reluctant to his desires But the issue proves fearfull for her long practise of Soveraignty over his weaknesse brings this Faire one to that passe as she begins to distaste him Though the man be tollerable for his part and of promising satisfaction she cannot brooke him yet if you should aske her the cause it is onely this Hee is her Husband Like that great favorite Flaviano who having taken to wife a noble Florentine Lady grew in short time to dislike her and being asked the reason why he could not affect her being every way so brave and compleat a Lady I grant said hee her parts deserve love and as I live there is none breathing that I could more constantly love did she not beare that name which I so much loath and being further demanded what name that was O replyed he with a sigh A Wife Neither for all this would I have you to mistake me as if I restrained affection onely to Beauty for I have knowne Fancy taken as much though not so often with Deformity as ever it was with Beauty Yea One in whom not so much as the least glympse or shew of favour appeared ha's wrought no lesse impressive Effects in the heart of a deluded Lover than if shee had been the Astrophel of the age

in hope of a day will come when you may freely make such an one his Heire who may suite better with your affection and in requitall share freelier in his fortune These will say too that you bedew your Husbands Corpse with Stepdames teares Those funerall flowers which bestick and bedeck his Hearse cannot be so soone with'red as your grief●s are vanished You bury your sorrow with him neither is that sorrow your owne but borrowed A New-husband is formalled before your old One be formally buried Now what poore traducements bee these Might Heathens have their times limited for mourning and must yours be everlasting Some will affirme too that in comparison of men your desires are more unbounded and this they say even our owne Moderne Chronicles have sufficiently confirmed But we finde Bodin worthily taxed for writing that Caesar in his Commentaries should say that the Englishmen of his time had but one woman for ten or twelve men whereas indeed Caesar never said so or could say so for that he never knew or heard of the name of Englishmen seeing their comming into Britaine was as may be clearely computed almost 500 yeares after his death Againe what might be the reason will some object why the Serpent first tempted the Woman rather than the Man and this question ever to your disadvantage is no sooner say they proposed than resolved by Chrysostome Women are naturally unwarier easier and frailer So as in that they are unwarier they are easilier deceived in that they are easier they are sooner to good or evill perswaded And in that they are frailer they are the sooner vanquished For this cause therefore would not the Devill assault the Man but the Woman for asmuch as he knew that a Woman was sooner deceived because unwarier quicklier perswaded because easier and sooner vanquished because frailer But this Objection I have so clearely assoiled in the very first Subject of this Booke as I shall little need to stand in your Defence any further touching this particular Only thus much may suffice There is small question to be made but the Serpents cunning knew well that he might by all probability soonest prevaile upon the weaknesse of a Woman yet albeit she was first tempted and tainted so soone as she consented the Man was as soone perswaded by the Woman though she infinitely lesse subtile than the Serpent as the Woman though the weaker vessell was by the Subtility of the Serpent But we will passe from these to those obvious reproofes which the present vanities of the Age lay upon you Some here amongst other objections which groundlesse spleene is ever apt to suggest and calumny with swift wings to disperse will say that ever since that time that your teeth watred at the Apple they have ever watred at forbidden fruit A licorish and luscious tooth hath ever since that time seazed on you And were this all it were to be borne with You cannot see a proper piece of flesh promising performance no dapper youth whose strong sinnewy posture confirmes him an able complete Lover but your eye wooes him and in so hote a chace pursues him as though your tongue be silent your sight is attractively eloquent But what would these Criticks have you doe Would they have you shut those beauteous Windows and to open them to no Object that may delight you Is there such a necessity that you cannot looke on him but you must lust after him If there be any rare or prodigious Monster to be seene we flock unto it and bestow our money for the sight of it And is it lawfull for us to fix our eyes with such greedinesse on a Monster and unlawfull for you to delight that pleasing Sense with a beauteous Object of Nature Yea but will these say we direct not our censure nor judgement only by the Eye we have other arguments to evince them of lightnesse for goe to these late-licentiate Pattentary Sedans you shall finde them shrowded there for strange arrands Though their Couches have windowes to eye Spectators they would not for a World wish that which the Philosopher sometimes Wished To have windowes in their breasts that the whole World might transparantly looke through them Poore Corky fooles These can see nothing wagge but they must p●epe here and peepe there and thinke it is Actaeons shadow whereas it is only the shadow of their owne deluded fancy which inthrals them to this misery Nor doe these only taxe you of a various lightnesse in respect of your Change but of a jealous doubtfulnesse towards your owne Choice If you gossip it none must question it whereas if they good men to allay a tedious houre or drowne the disquiets they suffer at home in a cup of Lethe keep abroad late they must be called to a strict accompt and pay a new reckning after their mispent day in the evening Nay you will tell your innocent Husbands when God knowes there is no great cause to suspect them That you know by your Payles what way the milk goes Whereas if any rightly knew the integrity of your thoughts they should find that such jealouse surmizes were the least of your thought No you did never so much as suspect them nor conceive any such opinion of them for having such sensible experiments of their weakenesse you knew well there was no cause at all in that way to traduce them It was your desire that late distempers should not abridge their daies and make you widdows before your times It was your ayme that your Husbands should preserve their fame That they should not fall under the hazard of the Halbert or the uncivile salute of a peremptory Watch. Besides alas it is your fortune sometimes out of meere simplicity to misconster the quality of an error As that good Gentlewoman did who desiring to heare how a young Student in Cambridge and her kinsman behaved himselfe in the University and inquiring of a Collegiat of his how he did I can assure you Mistresse quoth he that he holds close to Catharine-Hall I vow said the Gentlewoman there was no vice that I so much feared in him as that for the Boy was given to wenches from his Infancy Thus tooke this good simple woman Catharine-Hall for some dainty Damsell which he constantly haunted whereas it was a Collegiat-Hall which this young Student so affectionately loved and where he so studiously frequented But let us go on with these ungrounded calumnies and discusse the strength and solidity of them to the bottome Some of these Timonists or feminine Tetters taxe you of unbounded pride These pencyle out your Borders Habilements and Embroderies your toyes tyres and dressings your wimples wyres and curlings your paintings poudrings and purflings These say they make your fathers patrimonies to shake to maintaine your bravery while you are Maids And makes your Husbands Mannors to doe you service passe the Alienation Office Alas poore Girles If you appeare carelesse in your dresse you are quickly taxed of