5 6 Tbe HiHorj of LijeandUeatb. 



hath good digeftion, an old man bad : A young mam bowels are foft and fucculenr, an 

 old mans falc and parched: A yonng mans body is ereft and fireight , an old mans 

 bowing and crooked: A young mans limbs are fteady, an old mans weak and trem- 

 bling : the humours in a young man are cholerick, and his blood inclined to heat ; in 

 an old man plegmatick and melancholick, and his blood inclined to coldnefs : A young 

 man ready for the ad of V tnus, an old man flow unto it ; in a young man the juyccs of 

 of his body are more Rofcide, in an old man more crude and watrifli : the Spirit in a 

 young man plentifull and boyling, in an old man fcarce and jejune A young mans fpi- 

 rit isdenfeand vigorous, an old mans eager and rare: A young man hath his fenfes 

 quick and entire, an old man dull and decayed : A young mans "Teeth are ftrong and 

 entire, an old mans weak, worn, and falling out: Ayoungmans hair is coloured, an 

 old mans of what colour ioever it were, gray: A young man hath hair, an old man 

 baldnelfe : A young mans puli'e is ftronger and quicker, an old mans more confufed and 

 flower : The difeafes of young men are more acute and curable,of old men longer and 

 hard to cure: Ayoungmans wounds foon clofe , an old mans later : Ayoungmans 

 cheeks are of a frefb colour, an old mans pale, or with a black blood : A young man i s 

 lefle troubled with Rhumes, an old man more: Neither do we know in what things 

 old men do improve, as touching their body, fave only foraetimein fatnefsj where- 

 of the Reaion is foon given ; Becaufe old mens bodies do neither perfpfre well , nor 

 afiimilate well. Now Fatnefle is nothing elfe,but an exuberance of nourifhment, above 

 that which is voided by escrement.or which is perfe&Iy affirailated. Alfo, fome old 

 men improve in the appetite of feeding, by reafon of the Acide humours ; though old 

 men digeft worft. And all thefe things which we have faid , Phyf, C ta»t negligently 

 enough will refer to the Diminntion of the Natural beat, and Radical Mcifturt\ Which 

 are thiogs of no worth for ufe. This is certain, Drincfs in thecommingonofyears, 

 doth forego Coldntffe : and bodies when they come to the top, and ftrength of heat.do 

 decline in Drinejfe, and after that follows Coldnefs* 



Now we are to confider the AfieBtons of the Mi«d t \ remember when I was a young 

 man at Poiftiers in France , I converted familiarly with a certain frenchman ; a witty 

 young man, but fomething talkative; who afterwards grew to be a very eminent mar: 

 he was wont to inveigh againfl the manners of Old men, and would fay, That if their 

 Minds could be feea , as their Bodies are , they would appear no lefs deformed. Be- 

 fides, being in love with his own wit, he would maintain , That the vices of old Mens 

 minds, have fome correfpondence, and were parallel to the putrefactions of their bo- 

 dies; For the drinefle of their skin, he would bring in Imp ndence j for the hardnefs of 

 their bowels, Vnmercifulnefs^ For the Lippitude of their eyes, an evtll Eye, and Envy j 

 For the carting down of their eyes , and bowing their body towards the earth, 

 At he if* $ (for,1akh he, they leo\ no mere up to Beaven^as they Were tt>#»/:)For the trem- 

 bling of their M.emhers y lrr e folution of their Decrees ,and light incorJiancyi For the ben- 

 ding of their finger?, as it were to catch, Rapacity and CovetoufneJfetTor the buckling of 

 . their knees, fearfu/nefs- t For their wrinkle?, Craftinefe and Obliquity: And other things 

 which I have forgotten. But to be ferious, a young roan is modeft and fliamefaff, an 

 Jold mans forehead ishardned : A young man is full of bounty and mercy , an old 

 j mans heart is brawny; A young man is affected with a laudible Emulation, an old man 

 j with a malignant envy ; A young man is inclined to Religiori|and Devotion , by rea- 

 fon of his fervency and inexperience of evill; An old man cooleth in piety , 

 : through the coldnefle of his Charity , and long converfatign in evill ; and likewife, 

 through the difficulty of his belief : A young mans delires are vehement, an old mans 

 moderate: A young man is light and moveable, an old man more grave and conftant: 

 A young man is given to liberality and beneficence, and humanity; an old man to co- 

 vetoufnefs, wifdome for his own felf , and feeking his own ends : A young man is 

 confident , and full of hope; An old man diffident, and given to fufpect moft things:A 

 ! young man is gentle and obfequious.an old manfroward and difdainfull:A young man ; 

 is fincere and open hearted, an old man cautelous and clofe : A young man is given ! 

 | to defire great things, an old man to regard things neceflary . A young man thinks | 

 j well of the prefent times , an old man preferreth times pafr before them : A young man j 

 I re verenceth his iuperiours, an old man is more forward to tax them. And many other 

 I things, which pertain rather to manners, than to the prefent inquifition, Notwithftan- \ 

 ding old men, as in fome things they improve in their bodies , fo alfo in their minds, j 

 unkffe they be altogether out of date. Namely ; 'that as they are leffe apt for inven* 



