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Author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
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.
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Print source: 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.
London: Printed by R. Bishop, for R[ichard] B[est] or his assignes, 1640.
Subject terms:
Women -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16650.0001.001
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illustration
title page
dedication
TO HIS DAINTY DOXES.
THE SVBIECTS whereof it treats.
A TABLE, OR Apt Disposure, both in number and Order, of all such materiall Points, Tales, and Stories, as are here related, or familiarly couched in this BOULSTER LECTURE.
SECTION I. First, of the Excellency of Women in their Creation. Pag. 1.
OF BEAUTY.
DISDAINE.
AGILITY OF BODY.
LIBERTY.
QUICKNESSE OF WIT.
DISTASTE.
GENTLENESSE OF SPEECH.
DISSIMULATION.
SECTION II. Imitable vertues in Women; illustrated by Examples.
PRUDENCE.
JUSTICE.
TEMPERANCE.
FORTITUDE.
SECTION III. Their Moderation of Passion.
SECTION IV. Their Continency in assaults.
SECTION V. Their Modesty in Count'nance, Habit, and Expression of their Affection.
COUNTENANCE.
HABIT.
EXPRESSION OF AFFECTION.
SECTION VI. The violence of some Women used upon such as were Corrivals in their choice: with Examples.
SECTION VII. Their modest defence.
SECTION VIII. Their witty Aphorismes, Apothegms, and Answers.
SECTION IX. Their Eminent Labours; And how they were Assistants in the ex∣quisitest Workes that have been formerly composed, eyther for History or Poesy.
Ar't asleep Husband? A BOULSTER LECTURE, Stored with all variety of witty Jests, merry Tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted from the choycest Flowers of Phi∣losophy, Poesy, ancient and moderne History.
SECTION I. The Excellency of Women in their Creation.
BEAUTY.
DISDAINE.
AGILITY OF BODY.
LIBERTY.
QUICKNESSE OF WIT.
DISTASTE.
SPEECH.
SILENCE.
IMPERTINENCE.
GENTLENESSE OF SPEECH.
DISSIMULATION.
A GENTLEMAN USHER
SECTION II. Imitable Vertues in Women.
EXAMPLES.
PRUDENCE.
JUSTICE.
TEMPERANCE.
FORTITUDE.
SECTION III. Their Moderation of Passion.
SECTION IV. Their Continency in assaults.
SECTION V. Their Modesty in Count'nance, Habit, and expression of their affection.
COUNTENANCE.
HABIT.
EXPRESSION OF THEIR AFFECTION.
SECTION VI. The violence of some Women us'd upon such as were Corrivals in their choice: With Examples.
SECTION VII. Their Modest Defence.
SECTION VIII. Their witty Aphorismes, Apothegms and Answers.
SECTION IX. Their Eminent Labours; And how they were Assistants in the ex∣quisitest Workes that have been formerly composed, eyther for History or Poesy.