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hath good digeftion, an oldman bad; a young man’s bowels are foftand fucculent, an 
old man’s falt and parched ; a young man’s body is ercct and {treight, an old ma "s. 
bowing and crooked ; a young man’s limbs are fteady, an old.man’s weak and trem- 
bling ; the humours inayoung manare cholerick, and his bloud inclined to heat, in an 
old man phiegmatick and melancholick, and his bloud inclined to coldnefs ; a young 
iman ready for the act of Menus, an old nan flow untoit : in a young man the juices 
| of his body are more rofcid, in an old man more crude and waterifh ; the fpirit ina 
young man plentiful and boiling, in an old man fcarce and jejune - a young man’s fpi- - 
rit. is denfe and vigorous, an old man’s eager and rare ; a young man hath his fenfes 
quick and intire, an oldman dull and decayed ; a young man’s tceth are ftrong and 
entire, an old man’s weak, worn, and faln out; a young man’s hair is coloured, an 
old man's (of what colour foever it were) gray; a young man hath hair, an old man 
~ | baldnefs ; a young man’s pulfe is ftronger and quicker, an old man’s more confufed 
and flower; the difeafes of young men aremore acute and curable, of old men longer 
and hard to cure; ayoungman’s wounds foon clofe, an old man’slater ; a young man’s 
checks are of a freth colour, an old man’s pale, or with a black bloud ; a young man- 
is lefs troubled with rheums, an old man more. . Neither.do we know in what things 
old men do improve as touching their body, fave onely fometime in fatnefs; whereof 
the reafon is foon given, Becaufe old men’s bodies do neither perfpire well, nor affimi- 
late well: now Fatnefs is nothing elfe but an exuberance of nourifhment above that 
which is voided by excrement. or which 1s perfectly affimilated. Alfo fome oldmen 
improve in the appetite of feeding by reafon of the aczd humors, though old men digeft 
worft. And allthefe things which we have faid, Phy/iccans negligently enough will 
refer to the diminution of the Natural heat and Radical moiftare, w hich are things of no 
worth for ufe. This is certain, Drinefs inthe coming on of years doth forego (old | 
ne(s ; and bodics when they come to the top and ftrength of heat do decline in Drinefs, 
and after that follows Coldze/s. ; 
oH Now we are to confider the e-#feétions of the —Mind. remember when I wasa 
young man, at Podéters in France 1 conyerfed familiarly with a certain Freach man, a | 
witty young man, but fomething talkative, who afterwards grew tobe a very eminent 
, man: he was wontto inveigh again{t themanners of old men, and would fay, That if 
their Minds could be feen as their Bodies are, they would appear no lefs deformed. Be- 
fides, being in love with his ownwit, he would maintain, That the vices of old men’s 
Minds have fome correfpondence and were parallel to the putrefactions of their Bo- { 
dies : For the drinefs of their skin he would bring in Jmpudence ; for the hardnefs of } 
their bowels, wamercifulnefi : for the lppitude of thcir eyes, an evsl Eye and Envy: 
for the cafting down of their eyes, and bowing their body towards the earth, 
eAtheifm ; (for, faith he, they look no more upto Heaven as they are wont ) for the | 
trembling of their members, Irrefolution of their decrees and laght ‘nconftancy ; for the 
bending of their fingers, as it were to catch, R apacity and Covetoufnefss for the buck- \ 
ling of their knees, Fearfalnefs; for their wrinkles, (raftine/s and Oblquity: and other 
things which I have forgotten. But to be ferious, a young man is modeftand fhame- } 
fac’d,’ an old man’s fore-head is hardned ; a young man is full of bounty and mercy, an 
| old man’s heart is brawny ; ayoung man isaffected with a laudable emulation, anold 
man with a malignant envy; a young man is inclinedto Religion and Devotion, by 
| reafon of his fervency and inexperience of evil, an old man cooleth in_piet 
| through the coldnefs of his charity, and long converfation in evil, and/like wife 
_ through the difficulty of his belief ; a young man’s defires are vehement, ‘an old man’s 
| Inoderate’; a young man_ is light and moveable, an old man more grave and conftant ; 
_a young man is given toliberality, and beneficence, and humanity, an old man to co- 
-veroufnels, wifdom for his own felf, and fecking his own ends ; a young mam 1s 
confident and full of hope, an old man diffident and given to fufpect moft things; a | 
| young man is‘gcntleand obfequious, .an old man froward and difdainful; ayoung man } — 
\is fincere and open-hearted, an oldman cautclous and clofe ; a young man is given 
| to defire great things, an old/man to regard things neceffary ; a young man thinks 
wellof the prefent times, an old man preterreth times paft betérethem ; a youtfe man {| 
| reverenceth his Superiours, an oldman is more forward to taxthem : And my other | 
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, unlels they be altogether out of date: namely, that as they are lefs apt for 
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