The Hiftory of Life and Death. — 
papal | aapthe ba plessaldiaoecpsied Uke wile aaamaas aaa 
another by a Weather-glafs, if the Water interchangenot too fuddenly. Of and 
thelikeenquire further. Si ortiy: yrssnd ahha heey Reto Aa 
, Not onely the Goodne/s or Purenefs of the air, but alfo the Equality Wir, | 
is material to long life. Intermixture.of Hills aad Dales is pleafant to the fights dbut 
{ufpected for long life. 4 Plain, moderately drie, but yet not over-barren or fan- 
'| dy, mor altogether without Trees and Shade, is very convenient for lenges! a 
| 4 dneguality of Air as was even now faid ) in the place of. our dwelling is mi 
| but Change of Aur by. travelling, after one be ufed unto it, is good; and the store | 
ercat Travellers have been long livd. _alfo thofe thathayelived perpetually ina little 
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Cottage, inthe fame places have becnlong-livers; for air accuftomed confum i. 
butair changed. nourifheth and repaireth more, Ateatiog .aieemaee 
As the continuation and number of Succeffions (which we faid before) makes.no- | 
‘hing to the Length and Shortnefs,of Life ; fo the immediate condition of the Parents, | 
| |o@as. well the Father as the Mother) without doubt availethmuch. For fome are be |” 
[| gotten of old men, fome of young men, fome of men of. middle age; again, fome 
‘| |.are begotten of fathers healthful and well-difpofed, others of difeafed and languif. 
‘| ing ; again, fome of fathers immediately after repletion, or when. they are | 
| drunk, others. after flecping, ;or in the morning 5 again, fome after a long inter- | 
J mnuflion of enw, others upon, the act repeated; again, fome in the fervency of the | 
| father’s love, (as it is commonly; in Baftards) others after the cooling of it, as in | 
| long-married couples. The fame things may be confideredon the part of the Mother: } 
| unto, which muft be,added the condition of the Mother whilft the is- with child, | 
as touching her. health, as touching her diet, the time of her bearing in the womb, 
to the tenth month, or. carlier.. To reduce thefe things to a Rule, how farthey | 
may concern Long Life, is hard ; and fo much the harder, for that thofe things 
| which a man would conceive to be the beft, will fall out to the contrary : Forthat | 
| alacrity. in. the.Generation which begets lufty. and lively children , will be lefs | 
| profitable to long lifey becaufe of the Acrimony and inflaming of the Spirits; We | 
faid before, That to partake more of the mother’s bloud conduceth to long life ; J 
alfo we fuppofe all things in moderation to be beft ; rather Conjugal love than | — 
Meretricious ; the hour for Generation to be the morning; aftate of body not too | 
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lufty or full, and fuch like. It ought to be well obferved; that: a {trong Conftitu- 
| tion in the Parents is rather good for them then for the Child, efpecially in the Mother: 
| And therefore Plato thought, ignorantly enough, that the virtue of Generations 
| halted, becanfe the Woman ufed not the fame exercife) both of mind and bedy | 
with the Men. The contrary is rather true; for the difference of virtue betwixt |~ 
the Male and the Female is. moft profitable for the Child ; and the thinner Wo- | 
men yield more towards the nourifhment of the Child; which alfo holds in | 
Nurfes. Neither didthe Spartan Women, which married not beforetwenty two, or, | 
as fome fay, twenty five, (and thereforewere called A4an-like women ) bring forthia | 
more ‘gencrous or long-liv’d Progeny than the Roman or Athenian, or Theban | 
4 men did, which were ripe for Marriage at twelve or fourtcen years; andif shere | — 
were any thing eminent in the Spartans, that was rather to be imputed to the Par- | 
fimony of their Dict than to the late Marriages of their Women. But thisweare, | 
taught by experience, that there are fome Races which are long liv’d for a few 
‘Defcents ; fo, that Life is like fome Difeafes, a thing hereditary within ceitain. 
bounds, | . Ol 
Fair in Face, or Skin, or Harr, are fhorter livers; Black, or Red, or Freckled 
sa _ | longer. Alfo too frefh a colour in Youth doth Jefs promife tong life than palenefs, | 
A hard skin is a fign of long life rather that afoft;, but weunderftand not this ofa rag-. | 
ged skin, {uch asthey call the Goofé skeny which isas it were {pongy, but of that which | 
is hardand clofe. A Fore-head with deep furrows/and wrinkles is a better fign thana | 
fmooth and plain Forehead, eit dl Qe cor adil: eet a 
34. _ The .#airs of the Head hard andlike briftles,do betoken longer life than thofe that are 
foft anddelicate. Curled Hairs betoken the fame thing, if they be hard withal; b 
contrary: if they be foftand fhining:, the like if the emr/sag be rather thick thani 
bunches. aed’ gull) eal ao) “ota ak, 4) ocean 
35. | Early .or late, Baldne is an, indifferent thing, feeing many which haye 
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