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The Captive-captain

or, the restrain'd cavalier; Drawn to his full Bodie in these Characters ... Presented, and Acted to Life in a Suit of Durance; an Habit suiting best with the Place of his Residence [by Richard Brathwait]
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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THE CAPTIVE CAPTAIN: OR, The Restrained Cavaliere.
  
CHOICE CABINET COUNSEL.
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VIII. The restrained Cavaliere, with his Melancholy Fancy.
  
A QUEST of INQUIRY, Without hope of RECOVERY.
  
A REPLY.
  
Upon the LATE PLOT.
  
Upon the FACE of REBELLION: By the Hand of a ROYALLIST, ARTFULLY DEBLAZON'D.
  
A FAREVVELL-CAROL, To All COMMITTEE CARLES.
  
THE SEQUESTERES SONNET.
  
No Mean, No Man.

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CHOICE CABINET COUNSEL.

Aperiatur Scrinium,
Ut reperiatur Consilium.
Proclus.

Sperate Miseri,
Cavete Fœlices.

What precious treasures best inrich the mind,
Vnlock this Cabinet, and you shall find.
Gemms may be stoln, or lustre lose with rust;
But these more pure than to resolve to dust.
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