See imbrace on Wiktionary
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"text": "The dreames (braue mates) that did beſet my bed, / VVhen ſleepe but nevvly had imbraſt the night, / Commaunds me leaue theſe unrenovvmed beames, […]",
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"text": "Let Ignorance a little while now muſe / On what is ſaid, and let him not refuſe / Good counſel to imbrace, leſt he remain / Still Ignorant of what's the chiefeſt gain.",
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"text": "The dreames (braue mates) that did beſet my bed, / VVhen ſleepe but nevvly had imbraſt the night, / Commaunds me leaue theſe unrenovvmed beames, […]",
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