T be Hijkry of Life and Death. 



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Happy j In the calamity of her Husband, and near Kinsfolks,and in a long widow-hood,i 

 unhappy ; Notwithstanding much honoured of all, 



The year e of our Lord, feventy fix, falling into the Time of V rfpafian, is Memorable ; 

 In which wc fhall finde, as it were, a (Calender of long-liv'd Men : For that year , there 

 was a Taxing ; (Now a Taxing, is the molt Authentical, and trueSt Informer, touching 

 the.ages of men ; ) And in that part of Italy, which lieth betwixt the Apennine Moun- 

 tains, and the River ¥0, there were found an hundred and four and twenty perfons ; that 

 either equalled , or exceeded, an hundred years of Age : Namely, of an hundred yeares 

 ju(t, fifty four perfons ; Of an hundred and ten, fifty Seven perfons ; Of an hundred 

 and five and twenty, Two onely j Qf an hundred and thirty , four men ; Of an hundred 

 and five and thirty , or fcven and thirty, four more ; Of an hundred and foity, three 

 men. Befides thefe, Parma in particular, afforded five , whereof three fulfilled an. hun- 

 dred and twenty years ; and two an hundred and thirty : Uruxels afforded one, of an 

 hundred and twenty five years old : Tlacemia one , ag:d an hundred thirty and one s 

 Faveutia, one Woman, age one hundred thirty and two : A certain Town, then called 

 VelUiactum, icituate in the Hills, about flacentia, afforded ten; whereof fix fulfilled 

 an hundred and ten years of age ; Four > an hundred and twenty : LaStly, Rimim one, of 

 an hundred and fifty years, whole Name was Mantis Apontw. 



That oar Catalogue might not he extended too much in length, we harve thought fit, 

 as well in thofe -whom we have rehear jed, as in thofe whom we fhall rehear fe , to offer 

 none under eighty yeares oft/fge. Now we have affixed to every one a true and fhort 

 Character , or Elogie ; But of that fort % whereunto in our judgement , Length of Life 

 ( which is not a little fub] eft to the Manners and fortunes of men ) hath fame Relati- 

 on : And that in a two-fold Refpetl : Either that fuck kj»de of Men, are for the mop 

 part leng-liv'd ; Or that fuch Men may fometimei be p>f long life, though otherwise not 

 Tpelldifpofedfer it. r \ • ! . 



Amongft the Roman & Grecmn ^Emperours ; Alfo iheFrencb and Almain',To thefe 

 our Dayes, which make up the Number j©f ; well neer two hundred Princes ; There 

 are onely foure found , that lived to eightyiyeavs of Age ,■ unto whom we may add the 

 twofirft Emperours, ^Augufim^ and Tiberim i whereof the'latter fulfilled the feventy 

 and eighth yeare, the foimer the feventy and fixth yeare of his age, and might both per- 

 haps have lived to fourfcore , if Livia mACaius had been pkafed. Augufius ( as was 

 laid ) lived fe venty and fix yeares : A man of moderate Disposition ; In accompbfhing 

 his Defignes, vehement, but otbei wife Calm.4- and Serene j In meat and drinke fober, 

 In Venery intemperate ; Through all his lifetime Happy :. and who about the thir- 

 tieth yeare of his life , had a great and dangerous fickneflei ; Inlbmuch as they de- 

 fpaired of Life in him ; whom Antonius (JWIafa the Phyfician when other Phyficians 

 bad applied hot Medicines , as moft agreeable. 10 his Difeafe, on the contrary cured 

 tyith cold Medicines ; which perchance might be fome h Ipe , to the prolonging of his 

 Life. Tiberius lived to be two yeares older ; A man with leane chap , as ^AugufttK 

 waswonttofay ; For his fpeech Stuck with in his Jawes, but was weighty ;Hewasblou- 

 dy, a Danker, and one that took Lull into a part of his Diet 3 Notwithstanding, a 

 great Obfcrver of his Health ; Infomuch , that he ufed to fay ; That bee was a fool, 

 thatafcer thirty yeares of Age , took advice of a Phyfician. Gordian the Elder , lived 

 eighty years ; A'ld yet died a violent death , when he was fcarce warm in his Empire; 

 Amanofanhighfpint, and Renowned ; Learned, and a Poet; and constantly hap- 

 py, through-out the whole coui'fe of his life , fave onely, that he ended his dayes by a 

 violent Death. Valerianate Emper our , was feventy fix years of Age , before he was 

 taken Pnfoner^ by Sapor King oi ferfia : After his Capavity, he lived leven yeares 111 

 Reproaches, and then died a violent Death alfo : A man of a poor Minde , and not va- 

 Liant ; Notwithstanding lifted up in his own, and the opinion of Men , but falling 

 fhort in the performance. tAnaft alius, firnamed Dicorzu , lived 88 yeares : He 

 was of a fetled minde , but tooabjecl, and fuperftitious, and fearfull. Amcius Juftiriia- 

 nws lived to eighty three yeares -. a man Greedy of Glory ; performing nothing inhfits 

 own perfon, but in the valour of his Captains happy and renowned; Uxorious, and not 

 his own Man , but Suffering others to lead hinn. Helena o{ "Britain , mother of Con- 

 fiantine the Great , was fourlcore years old : a woman, that inter- medled not in matters 

 of ftate, neither in her husbands, nor fons reign;but devoted'her felf wholly to Religion ; 

 magnanimous, 8c perpetually flourishing. Theodora, the En(prefs(yihowis Sifter to Zoes t 



