| The Piiftory of Life and Death, \ 
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| happy in the calamity of her husband and near kinsfolks, andin-a long widow-hood 
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| unhappy ; notwith{tanding much honoured of all. Fatih i, 
| The year of our Lord feventy fix, falling into the time,of Ve/pagan, is memorable ; 
in which we fhall find, as it were, .a Calendar of long liv’d men: For that year there 
Wasa, Tasccng, (now a Taxing is the moft Authentical and trucft Informer touching 
} the ages of men;) and in that part of Maly whichlieth betwixt the edpennine —~Movn- 
‘tains and the River Po, there were found an hundred and four and ‘twenty: perfansthat 
| either equalled or.exceeded, an hundred years of age: riamelys of an ‘hundred years 
| juft, fifty four perfons); of an hundred and ten, fifty {even perfons; of an hundred 
| and five and twenty, two onely; of an hundredandthirty, fourmen ; of an hundred 
‘Vand five and thirty, or feven and thirty, four more,;, of an hundred and forty, three 
Jaen. Befidesthefe, ?armain particular afforded five ; whereof three fulfilled an hun- 
\ dred and twenty yeats, and two an hundred and thirty - Br#xels afforded one of an hun- 
| dred :and twenty five years olds Placentia one, aged an hundred thirty and one ; Fa- 
| wentia one woman, aged one hundred thirty and two : a certain Town, then galled 
{ Kelleiatium, fituate in the Hzl/s about Placentia, afforded ten, whereof fix fulfilled an 
| hundred and ten years of age; four, an hundred and twenty: Liaftly, R ani one of an 
| hundred and fifty years;whofe name was Marcus Aponins. 
_. That our catalogue might not. be-extended too much in length, we have thought fit, 
\ gs well in thofe whom we have-rehearfed, as tn thofe. whom we {hall rehear{e,.to offer 
'! mone under eighty years of age... Now we have affixedto every one a true and (hort 
| Chara@ter or Elogy ; but of that-fort mherennto, in our judoment ; Length of Life 
; (nbich is not a Isttle fubjet to the Manners and Fortunes of men) hath fome relation, 
| andthat in atwo-fold refpeck: esther that [uch kid of men are for the most part long- 
liv’d; or thar [uch men may fometimes be of long life, choagh otherwife not well difpofed 
| for. tt. 6 fH ish F's oO ety ie] 
Amongtt the Roman and Grecian Emperors, ' alfo the Frenchand eAlmain, to thefe 
| our ‘dayes , which make up the number of well-near two hundred Princes}. there 
are onely four-found that lived to eighty years of age: unto whom we may adde the 
{ two fir’ Emperors, eduguftus and Tiberivs ; whereof the latter fulfilled the feventy 
\ and eighth year, the former the feventy and fixth year of his age, and might both per- 
haps have lived to fourfcore, if Livia arid Cans had been pleafed.: wauguftus (as was 
faid ) lived feventy and fix years; aman of moderate difpofition ; in accomplithing 
his defigns vehement, but otherwife calm and ferene; in meat and drink fober, 
| in Venery intemperate, through all his life-time happy ; and who about the thir- 
‘| tieth year of his life had a great. and dangerons ficknefs., infomuch as they de- 
‘| {paired of lite in him ; whom Antonius Mufa the Phyfician, when other Phy ficians 
had applied hot Medicines, as moft agreeable to. his difeafe, on the contrar,; cured 
with cold Medicines, which perchtancemightbefome help to the prolonging of his 
life. 1berivs lived to be two years older: -d man with lean chaps, as Augustus 
-was wont to fay, for his fpeech ftuck within his jaws, but:was weighty. He was 
bloudy, a drinker, and one that took Luft intoa part of his. diet ; notwithftandin 
a great obferver of his health, infomuch that he ufed to fay, That he was a foal 
that efcer thirty years of|age took advice of a Phyfictar, Gordian the elder lived 
eighty years, and yet died a violent death when he was fcarce warm in his) Evepsre: 
a man of an high fpirit and renowned, learned, aida Poet; and conftantly hap- 
py throughout the whole courfe of his life, fave onely that he ended his dayes bya 
violent death, Valerzan thé Emperour was feventy fix years of age before he was 
taken prifoner by Sapor King of Verfia,. after his Captivity he lived feyen years in 
reproaches; and then died a violent death alfo » a man of a poor mind, and not va- 
ant ; notwithftanding lifted up in his osn and the opinion of ‘men; but falling 
dhort in the performance, -dvaflafins, furnamed Dicorus, lived eighty eightyears: he 
was of a fetled mind, but too abject, and fuperftitious; and fearful. -Anscius Fufti- 
nianus lived to eighty three years: a man greedy of glory, performing nothing in his 
own perfon, but inthe valour of his Captains happy and tenowned; uxorious, and not 
his own man, but fuffering others to lead him. Helena of Britain, mother of Con- 
ftantinethe Great, was fourlcore years old: a woman that intermedled not in matters of 
State neithet inher Husband's rior foris Reigns but; devoted her felf wholly to Religion ;- 
magnanimous and. perpetually flouri{hing. “ine the Emprefs(who was filter to Zoes, 
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