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The English gentleman; ; and The English gentlewoman: : both in one volume couched, and in one modell portrayed: to the living glory of their sexe, the lasting story of their worth. Being presented to present times for ornaments; commended to posterity for presidents. With A ladies love-lecture and a supplement lately annexed, and entituled The turtles triumph ... (1641)

Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673 · London, : Printed by Iohn Dawson. · leaf 232

An illustration from The English gentleman; ; and The English gentlewoman: : both in one volume couched, and in one modell portrayed: to the living glory of their sexe, the lasting story of their worth. Being presented to present times for ornaments; commended to posterity for presidents. With A ladies love-lecture and a supplement lately annexed, and entituled The turtles triumph ..., 1641, leaf 232
hall be fo equally difpofed, as you fhall never need to redeeme Time, becaufe you never prodigally loft it; nor repent your fruitlcfTe expence of Qoinet becaufe you never profufely fpent it. Thus if you live , you cannot ** chufe but live for ever; for ever in refpecT: of thofe choice vertues which… … THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN Argument. Of Perfe&ion; Contemplative and Attive ; The *Aiiive preferred;Wherein it eonfifteth j Of the abfolute or Supreme end whereto it ajpireth , andwherein it refteth.

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