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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

your owne house and finde that in a lawfull love which you shall never enjoy in hatefull lust This advice delivered by so deserving a Creature and in so winning a manner might have wrought singular effects in any plyable or well-disposed Nature but so strongly steeled was his relentlesse heart unto these as with a disgracefull and uncivill kicke hee pusht her from him vowing withall to publish her shame to all the world if she desisted not after that time to sollicit him or personally to repaire unto him So strongly had those loose and light Consorts seaz'd on his affections as stolne Waters seemed to him the sweetest A conjugall joy was a servile yoke which his misery afterwards felt being both by friends and fortune left For having offered the remainder of his decayed estate to that Common Sewer hee dyed a miserable unpittied Begger Whence we may collect and confidently avouch That a great office is not so gainefull though too many at this day in their rising revenues to their injurious owners highly usefull as the Principall-ship of a Colledge of Curtezans no Merchant in riches may compare with these Merchants of Maidenheads if their femall Inmates were not so flitting This may appeare in those usefull Collections gatherd out of the History of Italy the truth and authority of which testimony if we may credit Rome wanteth no jolly Dames specially the street Iulia which is more than halfe a mile long faire building on both sides in manner inhabited with none other but Curtezans some worth tenne some worth twenty thousand Crownes more or lesse as their reputation is And many times you shall see a Curtezan ride into the Country with tenne or twelve horse waiting on her But to looke back upon our discourse As there is nothing more dangerous to youth than selfe-opinion so is it a cure of greatest difficulty having taken once seazure of a Woman This that flowrishing State of Mantua was in great hazard to have felt when Isabella wife to Luchino Visconti Lord of Millaine a very faire woman feigned to her Husband that shee had made a solemne vow to goe in Pilgrimage to Venice and under that colour obtaining licence she tooke Mantua in her way where she lodged in the house of the Gonzagi antient friends unto her Husband And after she had supped sent secretly for Vgolino unto whom she declared that for the fervent love she bare to him she had taken on her that journey beseeching him in lieu of her entire affection to keepe her company unto Venice This Loves-intended-Pilgrimage came to the eare of Luchino who provoked therewith laid siedge to Mantua albeit finding the friends of Vgolino innocent of the fault and that Guido his father did his best to correct him Luchino through intercession raised the siege Fitting for our purpose is that Story which our moderne age brought forth being in effect thus There was a dainty beautifull young Lady who selfe-opinionate of her owne worth after such time as she had been a space married fell in dis-esteeming of her Husband He having sought by all meanes to regaine her good opinion and to ingratiate himselfe in her respect which his owne parts well enough deserved howsoever he stood in her bookes neglected could by no meanes receive a pleasing countenance from her Which distaste wrought so strangely and strongly on his spirit that could never stoope to basenesse nor ingage his noble thoughts to an ingenerous revenge though many visible Motives might justly inrage him and cause him transgresse the bounds of patience as he resolv'd to betake himselfe to Travaile that so by distance of place hee might in time banish from his thoughts the cause of his discontent But long had not he there remained a banish'd man from his Countrey but desirous to see some other Nations and so by improving his knowledge learne to forget his griefe then being imbarked in a Merchants ship bound for such a Coast they were so encounter'd by contrary winds as it hapned that they arrived at a small Port-Towne within his owne native Countrey where his Lady at that time resided by occasion of some Fortunes lately to her descended She who kept a liberall Table in the absence of her Husband dis-affecting nothing more than privacy hearing how a Ship was there lately arrived and diverse Strangers of seeming quality entered the Haven Caused the Groome of her Chamber to addresse his way to the Port where if hee found any one of gracefull presence or personage to invite him withall unsuspected privacy to her House Her command is observed and to second his Ladies desire hee findes none more likely to tender her content than her owne Husband But before such time as her Servant sent forth upon this message would returne his errand he seriously eyed that Stranger perusing his complexion and favour which discontent and his late absence had so estranged from his knowledge as at first he could not know his Master But at last becomming assured that it was no other desirous to doe him a pleasure as became a faithfull servant to so respective a Master yet without so much as discovering himselfe or acquainting him with any plot he had he privately at first returns his message from his Lady but withall desires him as he tender'd a Ladyes honour to use all secrecy that his Ladyes freedome in her respect and entertainment to him if any such curtsy should appeare might bee free from all discovery This the Gentleman promised though wholly ignorant what was intended Meanetime her honest Groom returns an account of what he had done acquainting his Lady that a Gentleman of as proper parts gracefull presence and hopefull performance was that Evening landed as ever his eyes beheld And withall how he had taken occasion to deliver her message unto him and with what modesty it was by him accepted and how to prevent suspicion his desire was with all privacy to be admitted by some back way unto her Chamber and without Lights fearing above all things the discovery of his Master Easy admittance is granted a private way over a Moate environing the house is prepared nothing neglected that might promise to this seeming stranger free entertainment Nor is her servant remisse in ought that may facilitate his lawfull affectionate desires One thing only he conceives himselfe to have omitted which might conduce highly to the effecting of his plot Hee perceives a Diamond-ring upon his Masters finger well knowne to his Lady by a private Posy This he wisheth him upon his mounting the Stayres and entring into her Chamber at his departure to bestow upon her For said he our Ladies in these parts never receive any strange Servants but they expect some token of their Love should be left them to renue their affection upon next acquaintance and give them more confidence of their secrecy This Lady longing for the embraces of so accomplished a Guest as her Servants relation had described him with a count'nance as cleare

her Women by preventing the use of that which most indangers Temperance whence came up that Custome for kinsmen to kisse their kinswomen to know whether they had drunke wine or no and if they had to be punished by death or banished into some Island Nor was there any respect or restriction if we may credit the testimony of Plutarch who saith that if the Matrons had any necessity to drinke wine either because they were sick or weake the Senate was to give them licence neither were they permitted within Rome to have that liberty but out of the City This restraint those Noble temperate Ladies little needed who held it an high derogation to their honour to consort with any wine-bibber or such whose liberty had made them subject to any such ingenerous distemper Excellent to this purpose was her saying She knowes not the true estimate of her honour who dare expose it to danger Nor was her Resolution lesse usefull though perhaps too generall who hearing her Waiting-Maid to be distemper'd with liquor Waiting woman quoth she you may call her Maid you cannot being subject to such distemper In a word heare what those brave Roman Ladies held of Temperance We had rather said they suffer the extreamest assaults or braves of Fortune than lose the least graine of Patience by giving way to Passion A deserving Memoriall which carefully reteined may regulate in us those straying affections which usually distract the mind enfeeble the spirit and make the noblest Creature by this ignoble servitude more savage than any other Thirdly for the Intelligible part what quicknesse and pregnancy of conceipt hath appeared in women may be collected by their ready Answers and upon more deliberation their weight of reasons whereof I shall here in this place speake but little having occasion to treate more amply of this Subject in that Section wherein I am to speake of their Witty Aphorismes which long preceding times have recommended to Posterity Where you shall finde such a complete Structure both for height of wit and depth of understanding that as Cicero sometimes said of Galba's leaden and lumpish Body His wit had an ill lodging So without offence might it be spoken of those in respect of the weakenesse of their Sexe They had rich stuffe for such weake houses So preciously were they stored so richly beautified so completely furnished with all intellectuall graces as shall appeare in his due place And so we will descend to the last of our Cardinall Vertues Even that which may seeme most estranged from their Nature yet through the strength and vigour of their spirit enlivened in the highest measure FORTITUDE SOME will merrily say We like not well that you should commend Fortitude in a Woman We have Zantippe's enough in the World who can breake the pate of a Philosopher without ever studying for a Plaister Their strength and spirit should consist in Tongue for them to be provided of any other armour was never so much as intended by Nature It is true Nor is it our purpose to present them here playing their Prizes but to expresse their resolutions in time of danger wherein they came ever off with their Countreys safety and their owne honour Though my Sexe proclaime me weake said that Noble Matron I have a spirit in me can supply that want Yet should the rigidst Censor be more charitably perswaded than to thinke that she would imploy this noble spirit of hers in trying mastery with him to whom she was to acknowledge a superiority Epicharia that famous Libertine of Rome though she complyed well enough with her Husband expressing that obedience which became a loyall Wife patient in suffering meeke in remitting kinde and loving in all offices of affection yet made privy to a Conspiracy against Nero that prodigy of Princes would not disclose the Plotters thereof though tormented with cruell punishments She chused rather to suffer the exquisitest torments that could be invented by the hand of Cruelty than to discover them who labour'd to suppresse his tyranny Leaena though a Prostitute was indued with a brave spirit who conspiring with Armodius and Aristogiton her familiar acquaintants against the Tyrant Hippeas stood not agast at the death of her Friends though torne with extreamest torments but holding it basenesse to reveale the Complices bitte in sunder her owne tongue and spit it out in the Tyrants face But you will say these were too fierce and furious spirits to be inclosed in effeminate Caskes we will therefore give you a touch of such whose moderate and well-tempered dispositions exprest their worth even in a princely command of their desires in outward things scorning to lament for losing what they could no longer possesse yea so little joy conceiv'd these on Earth as they equally rejoyc'd in forgoing or enjoying whatsoever they possest on Earth It was a faire and imitable resolution of that well-affected Gentlewoman The extremity of Fortune I shall little feare seeing the worst she can doe me cannot make me base Nay even in the deprivall of those blessings which more nearely concerne them and such as should touch Nature even in her bowels have some of them showne such constancy of spirit as they were ready to minister advice and comfort to those who in respect of their Sexe and Place whereto they were called might more properly have seem'd to performe that office to them This might be illustrated by a domestick instance of our owne A person of high quality and ranke no lesse than a Counsellour of State hearing the report of the death of his Sonne fell into such a passionate overflow of sorrowing as he would scarce admit any one for the present to have accesse unto him or to minister any arguments of comfort to him This his discreet Lady well observing thought it best to supply that Office her selfe which others had so fruitlesly laboured to put in practise So as one day she begun thus to expostulate the grounds of his sorrowing in this manner Good Lord Sir ha's your wisdome so much forgot it selfe as not to reserve one minute for recollecting your dispersed thoughts Are all these teares for the losse of a Child Me thinkes my portion should be as great in that losse or else I fall off from the proportion of a motherly love But I conceive Sir and this no doubt your Wisdome will see into That as we first received him so we have but render'd him backe to him from whom we had him Againe Sir should you but consider how ill these teares would beseeme you if the State should looke on you you would soone take truce with your eyes and teach them not to darken that Light which should imploy it selfe in direction of the State Who knowes but that our childs death now in his prime prevented him from seeing and suffering many miseries in his time The sewer his yeares the fewer his teares Let us then with patience recommend him to him who first gave us him and now