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even to ‘ho lefsthan two hundred piles: * Th 
natus, Duke; Thomas Contarenms, Procurator of St. «Mark; Francifeus Molinus, |) 
Procurator alfo of St. Afark, and others. But moft'memorable is that of Cornarus | 
the Venetian, who being inthis youth of. fickly body, began firft to eatand drink by | ~ 
meafiire'to a certain weight, thereby to recover his health : this Cure turned by ufe{ - 
into’a Diet, that Diet to an extraordinary long Life, even of an hundredycars andbet- | 
ter, without any decay in-his fenfes, and with a conftant enjoying ofhishealth, I ih 
hae | 
‘outage William Poftel, a French-man, lived to an hundred andwell-nigh twenty y 
the top'of his beard on the upper-lip being black, andnot gray at all: a man crazec 
his brain; ‘and of a fancy not altogether founds a great’Traveller, Mathematici 
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20. I fuppofe there is fcatcea Village with usin England, if it beany whit populous, but } 
it.affords forme Man or Woman of fourfcore years of age ; nay, a few years finc 
was in the’ County of Hereforda May-game or Morrice darice, confifting of eigt 
whéfe age computed together made up eight hundred years, infomuch that whe 
‘of them’ wanted of an hundred, othersexceededasmuch. = Su Sa 
In the Hofpitalof Bethlehem, corruptly called Bedlam, in the Suburbs of. London, t 
are fourid from time to time many mad perfonsthatlive ta a great age. - ci 
Thé'agés' of Nymphs, Fauns, and Satyrs, whom they make to be indeed mo 
but "yet “exceedingly long-liv’d , (a thing which ancient Superftition a1 
late Credulity of fome have’admitted ) we account but for Fables ai ea 
efpecially ‘being that which hath ‘neither confent with Ph:lofophy nor with D 
nity.’ And as touching’the Hiffory of Long Life in Man by Individuals, or ne 
unto “Jedioiduals, thus much. “Now ‘we will pafs on to Objervations by ce 
The Running on of Ages, and Succeffion of Generations, {eem to no 
abated ‘from the length of Life ; for we fee that from’ the time of Az 
our ‘dayes, the term of man’s life hath flood about fourfcore- 
oir declined (as a man would have thought) by little 
oubt ‘there are times in every Country ‘wherein men are long. 10 
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