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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

fly to the bush Sara behind the door no should the mountaines offer themselves for a shrowd yet in vaine is such retyre no place can hide us from his eye that is ever over us It was Seneca's councell to his friend Lucilius that whensoever he went about to do any thing he should imagine Cato or Scipio or some other worthy Romane to be in presence This Rule you observe you conceipt with your selves in the sacred silence of your hearts which are so close from the affections of Earth as they only aspire to the Contemplations of Heaven that the eyes of all good men no even of those who are become Saints of men are upon you Your desire is only to please them who are only pleased with the Object of goodnesse Being Pythagoreans to all the World and Peripatetians to Christ mute to all vanities and eloquent only to Christ. You follow the counsell of a mellifluous father and of a Wise Morall by setting alwayes before your eyes some Good person to the end that you might so live as if he were ever looking on you ever eying you There is no young Gallant that need encounter you in those tearmes which that cautious Cavaliere did in Erasmus to his wanton Mistresse Are you not ashamed to do that in the sight of God and eye-witnesse of his holy Angels which you are ashamed to doe in the sight of men But now to take a view of these Errors to which your Sexe becomes most ingaged or at least for which you are many times innocently traduced This free speaking Age will not stick to taxe you of Ambition and wherein must this consist but in your desire of precedency before others of your sexe and soveraignity over such as should be your heads And these will tell you of an ancient custome which if you observed as you ought you would not transgresse that law of Obedience so much as you do And this was that when at any time a Couple were married the soale of the Bridegrooms shooe was to be laid upon the Brides head implying with what subjection she should serve her husband But me thinks this Rituall Embleme or Emblematicall Rite was too much underfoot to be observed by one that should be esteemed an equall-individuall mate She came from his Side not from his Foot And though she be not to walk Checkmate with him yet when her Check shall meet with him it cannot chuse but both appease him please him when any thing shall distemper him There are some likewise that will say how your Ambition clozeth not only here Your darling ayme is Honour you could love him that suits you if he could bestow a new stile on you The Title of Madame highly takes you Nor is there any vanity that pleaseth more by playing on your fancy than the naked Complement of Lovely Lady I have heard indeed some of your Sexe so affected but alas this was but an harmelesse Ambition Of which humour that honour-inamoured Damasella seem'd to be who in that Generall-grand Call of Knights finding in her Husband an unwillingnesse to accept as she conceived of that Honour so farre at last prevailed with him by strong Reasons and high Relations of the Honour and Mirror of Knighthood as she perswaded with him to entertaine it But upon his returne home having understood how he had payd for what he got not and disburs'd money for that he had not She entertained the poore Pilcherd with a Bastinado telling him withall that though his dungrell spirit would make her no Lady her fury should make him know what she desired to be Truth is such an innate evill is the desire of Honour as that person who affects it not is of a rare temper And yet that brave Girle seemed to be one of these who being Ladyfide by an honour conferred on her decrepit Husband presently upon report of it thus replyed Trust me a Cullis were farre more Soveraigne for my spent Husband than any Honour For tell me quoth she speaking to the Messenger will all this he hath gotten restore in him Nature Will it cure in him his dry Cough Distillation of rhume from his head That perpetuall defluxion in his eyes Will it strengthen his back Will it make him bend lesse in the hams Will it get me with Boy which his Seere stock could never yet do If his late-purchas'd Honour may produce these effects I shall hold it worth acceptance If otherwise be it what it will I shall hardly admire it much lesse embrace it seing a Poste is still the same be it never so neately painted or pargetted An other Error you are likewise taxed of as what sexe or degree so innocent which the freedome of a calumnious tongue may not traduce and it is your usuall frequent to Court-Maskes and other publique State-Shows where you use purposely to present your selves a pretty time before any such Shows are to be performed in hope that some amorous Lord or some other Complementall Court-Sparke will take you into some with-drawing roome to court your beauty and so ingratiate himselfe within the easy Lists of your fancy So as you come not thither so much to see what is there presented as to be amorously courted affectionately suited all which is with such yeelding silence and pleasing smiles redarted as they hold you wonne so soone as you are wooed tainted as soone as you are attempted soiled so soone as you are assayled ent'red so soone as you are assaulted Others likewise report you apt to take affection upon the moving of any personall Action If you come to a Play-house and there chance to see an Active Roscius breathing life in his Action you presently feele a glowing heate in your veines You could finde in your heart to bestow the choice of a Lover on such an Actor Weake-grounded malice to vent it selfe on such loving frailties Injurious Tetters to femall honours Because their sweet pliable natures are such as they can find no harbour for hate must they therefore be tax't because their Love breaks forth into too much heate These deserve so little answering as if they had no other Advocate even Nature her selfe would plead for them There be Some likewise who say that as you are commonly light in the choice of your Love so are you in your Love as subject to change If your affection be for Youth though it best please you yet you can seemingly bestow it on Age though nothing more displease you And these effects those lovely fortunes of his loathed Love worke in you And what is all the employment you take in hand after such time as you have given him your hand and heart but with no good heart but how to cosin him Your use is they will say to give your old Chrone a sleeping powder that you may take the keys of his treasure from under his head the sooner and so long before his death make your selves his Administrators You love him but only

displeas'd God I am more sorry said she for I am sure it pleas'd me There is another kind of dissimulation too which is so farre from incurring any grounded offence as it deserves high approvement And this is when Beauty is not only wooed but seemingly wonne to produce some good effect by his meanes who imagines himselfe master of the prize Of these to omit instances in Sacred Writ we shall finde our Stories plentuously stored The redoubted Thomyris could practise this feate to expedite her Sonnes revenge and restore her Countreys fame This did that chaste Penelope deluding her numerous Suiters with hopes of successe only to spin out time and with her never-finished webbe to keep them ever in suspence This did that wise but unbeleeved Cassandra who seemingly inclined to Apollo's suite that hee should injoy her if hee would bestow on her the gift of prophecy which when she had obtained she denyed him that which she had seemingly granted But the preservation of her Chastity impaired the Credit of her prophecy being never beleeved were it never so true that shee related This pious act did that memorable Hypermn●stra who pretending nothing lesse than what her vertuous aymes directed themselves wholly to saved her husband Linceus from that fatall massacre committed by her Sisters in slaying their husbands Nay it ha's beene the safety of many flourishing estates to dissemble Vertue●● and to comply with the times ever expecting some faire opportunity to put in execution what their addressements for the publique led them to This wise and commendable kinde of Dissimulation some of our witty Wenches many times use in putting on a Countenance of Disdaine at least of strangenesse towards those whom inwardly they unfeignedly affect Nor have these Sleights produced insuccessive effects to their desires For by this meanes have they enjoyed what their simple inclining affection would never have made them Mistresses of For profer'd fruit is sedome tasted and if tasted not halfe so well relishing as if restrained Those golden Apples which the Hesperides those three watchfull Daughters of Atlas so carefully kept were more preciously esteemed because they were by such vigilant beauty guarded Forts which open to their Beleaguerall passages unlesse the miseries of a long Siedge have brought them to that pusillanimity promise no rich booty nor to the winner any glorious victory The way then for beauty to be priz'd is to be rarely seene and when seene so indifferently seeming to be seene as it desires to retire so soone as it is seene This is the load-starre to affection to ●eeme estranged from the least thought of affection and to fixe least in that Object which h'as most interest in her heart This that subtile Coy-duck had learn'd to an hayre when if any time she were invited with her jealouse Husband to a publique Feast shee would alwayes fixe her eye upon the antientst and reverendst in yeares at the Table whereas the eye of her inward affection was elsewhere spheared assuring her Husband withall that no Sight was more seemely in her eye nor convey'd more reverend love to her heart than a grave Old-man who had already spunne the entire webbe of his Follies and could discourse with all sobriety of what he had seene in the World And this neate kind of dissembling pleased her credulous Husband out acry For he believed good man that there was a thorow fayre betwix his Wifes mouth and her heart Whereas Meander had never more windings than she had dainty sleights and devices to delude his facility and to shrowde from the World her private affection to youthfull liberty Till in the end found where she lest suspected and closely infolded in the embraces of a loose Lover whom she entirely affected she begun to relinquish shame and in a publique manner to contest against her Husbands disability And how her modesty had so long restrain'd her but seeing no hope of remedy she held change no robbery and that no Censure should thenceforth abridge her liberty This Dissimulation produc'd a dangerous issue such as a vertuous brest cannot harbour we will therefore divert from this and returne unto the former being such a modest bashfull kinde of punishing their desires as many times that too much retiring or restraining of their Love-sick thoughts procures no small distemper to those who love and would not be thought so As it hapned to that noble Italian Lady who loth to impart the ground of her love or to make any other Secretary to her owne brest fell into such a languishing sicknesse as though the expertest Physicians of those parts consulted about her labouring by all the meanes they could use and all the receipts they could apply not onely to discover the source and occasion of her griefe but allay it yet all their experiments were in vaine they could not finde out the Cause till shee at last drawing neare her last discovered it For when her vitall parts began to bee so enfeebled as they surceased to performe their office and all hope of recovery perish'd in the presence of her Dearest whom till that dying period shee never made least show of to be her Dearest she tooke leave of all the World with this Dispassionate cloze Adue my deare Leontius Which words were the last shee ever spake But what deadly effect those words brought forth in her Leontius the Story amply relates For if the words of dying men be precious even to strangers how impressive the voice of one we love calling and beckning to us from the death-bed O what a passionate conflict what a soule-dividing combat doe those words raise How strongly doth griefe and affection like Sisiph●s loving Twins strive to inclose them knowing that in a short space a very short space that tongue the Organs whereof yet speake and move attention by their friendly accents amorous interbreaths teare-trickling adieus was to be eternally tyed up in silence nor the sound of their words salute our eares any more This it was which brought heart-sicks Leontius to his bed of Earth soone after her For recollecting with himselfe how his love was the sole cause of her death like an affectionate Mate who well deserv'd so faithfull a Mistresse after her Obsequies finished he immured himselfe from all society with the World where he enjoyed himselfe till his many pensive dis-consolate houres brought him to her whom he loved above himselfe But these are too heavy for soft ●ares That Love deserves approvement which is till death but that Love requires a seasonable restraint which may occasion death Those two Lovers are more for our purpose who one day falling into a piece of Country-love-Complement proceeded thus O Iug how doe I love thee Nay you know best said Iug but sure am I I shall never dye with loving you No Iug said he But I warrant it thou wouldst if thou hadst an handfull of me A proper handfull quoth she I should bee much better for a bit and a buffet with 't Nay faith

Troy ruined that light dishonour'd booty the hatefull remaines of vitiated beauty wanton Helen restored than Aegistus his shamefull retire was fully revenged The unfortunate Agrippina whose birth was her bane whose race was her ruine thought she did well in fitting and accommodating her sonne that Monster of men for an Empire yet happy had that Empire been if it had never known such a son His education prepar'd him to comply with time To ingratiate himselfe with Senators and Plebians To affect popularity and to cover the craft and cruelty of his nature with a seeming Clemency and gracefull Majesty Thus may you see how good intentions may produce ill effects and some mischievous Plots good ends Some by loving their Husbands or to use that complementall garbe their Servants too well have by their too much love ruined both their Servants and themselves Some desiring to please have made them perish whom they sought to please Like that over-kind Duck who perceiving her Sweetheart to be tiklish and thinking it to bee a pleasure tickled him so long till he burst his very Spleene with laughter Now take a review of all those Tragick Examples which in our last Section we presented to your sight Was there any one of those induced to shed blood for any hope of honour Filthy lucre or any other pleasure save only to become sole Soveraignes or absolute commanders of their own Love Their Plots were not to bring in an Empire usurpe immerited honour or to send their eyes abroad to hunt for new favour Their desires were confined their affections closed their goale obtained so they might but enjoy without Sharers those whom they so infinitely loved Content is worth a Crowne and this Crowne they held themselves seaz'd of so long as they possest their owne Their owne you will say But you relate but of few such unto us These whom you have brought forth for such Examples had their bosomes open to more than their own Corrivals in others affections as well as their owne Which as they fell into fearefull extreames so were they enlivened by unlawfull desires It is true yet are we in charity to collect that if they so highly valued stolne fruits they would much more prize such as were lawfully enjoy'd You have heard sufficient store of Arguments and Presidents touching their Continency in assaults their Constancy to their owne With what Equanimity they have borne all extreames to expresse their loyall hearts Hope of fortunes could not tempt them Baits of honour could not taint them youthfull pleasure could not take them They continued Widdowes in the absence of their Husbands Resembling Snayles in the carriage of their houses but Roes in dispatch of their businesse Whence it was as I conceive it that the Romans had a custome that when any of their Maids were married they were to bring their houshold stuffe with them being such as was by their Friends bestowed on them which being brought to their Bridegroomes house They were likewise to follow in their Waine or Caroach according to the quality of their persons and at the Tressall of the doore to breake the wheeles of the Waine and to put off their shooes implying that from thenceforth they were to be House-keepers and no Gadders And such constant House-wifes have we here offered to your imitation Plato in his Dialogue entitled Symposium or a Gossip-meeting by way of fiction which rellish best when they arise from a pure and refined invention describeth the difference betwixt two kinds of Venus whereof the first was more antient brought forth by the Heavens whom Vertuous men doe follow the second much younger begotten betweene Iupiter and Dione whom wicked men doe serve Which Fiction as it is not without delight so neither is the Morall without fruit Ye Modest Ones for to you only is our Lampe dedicated are these who are brought forth by the Heavens Your Thoughts are fixt on that Spheare from whence you came It is not on earth that can depresse you below your selfes be your Fortunes never so dejected nor on earth that may transport you because your desires are higher seated When you Love that love of yours is so purely sifted from all loose love as it confirmes you nothing lesse than divine When you Hate that hate of yours is so farre from all extreames as you have an eare no lesse ready to heare a Submission than a tender heart to seale their pardon When you give you give chearefully when you forgive you forgive freely You cannot heare any one defamed but with an averse eare and declining heart you leave the relater to himselfe or disswade him from dispersing such reports or stand in defence of their honour whom you heare traduced especially when their absence leaves them unjustified When any light object labours to suggest an impure thought to your unblemish'd minds you take a wise course you give it a repulse at the first assault left getting enterance it plead possession and disturbe the whole Family by her intrusion Thus by making Heaven your Object whatsoever is lesse than Heaven you make your Subject Your Speech likewise is so seasoned that nothing is uttered by you but what is true knowing that the ground of every Speech should be Verity nor any thing with vehemency pressed but what may redound to Civile profit knowing that the ayme of every Speech should be Vtility nor continued but with a pleasing sweetnesse knowing that the grace of every Speech is Affability You thinke twice before you speake and may be demanded twice before you answer You are not like our forward Gossips whose tongues make themselves thralls Discretion ha's so regulated your Speech as it ever stands at distance with Lightnesse and Spleene Your words unlike many of our feminine discourses reteine more weight than wind they are like Nayles fastned by the Elders of the Assembly such is their efficacy They are like Apples of Gold with Pictures of Silver such is their propriety All your Dialect is regulated by the Rule of Charity you scorne to Speake that of another which you would not have another to speake of you Your Discourse differs far from that Talkative Orator whose use was to powre forth an Ocean of Words but a Droppe of Reason Or like that impertinent Speaker of whose studied but stupid speech this judgement was given That the shortnesse of it was the discreetest part of it No there is not an accent breath'd by you but it dignifies you because preparation fits it and an unaffected dresse beautifies it In a word that which is a blemish in others becomes an incomparable grace to you For as you never minister occasion of discourse without cause so you never close it without maturity of judgement and pregnancy of conceipt Your Actions are so pure from staine as they represent the purity of your state Your Workes desire not to be clothed with vailes of darknesse You consider how that All-seeing Eye is over you from which though Adam