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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Philogenes Panedonius = Richard Brathwait. With an additional title page, engraved, "A boulster lecture.", with imprint "London. Printed for R.B. or his assignes.", signed by William Marshall. Variant: imprint on engraved title page reads: London. Printed for R Best and are to bee sould at his shop neare Graies-Inn gaite in Houlbourne. The Huntington Library copy has a leaf inserted after a1, possibly as a cancel, containing a dedication to Mrs. Catherine Fletcher; not included in pagination above. K4 is a cancel. Quire Y contains "Menippus his madrigall, to his coy-duck Clarabel"; quire Z contains "A postscript, writte by an auditor, upon hearing this lecture". The last leaf contains errata reimposed from Y4. Running title reads: A boulster lecture. Another issue has Richard Best's name in full in the letterpress imprint. Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.