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of the infirmities of age, till he arrived at his hundredth 

 year, in which, without any previous ficknefs or pain, 

 he fell into a kind of fwoon, and prefently gave uplhe 

 ghoft. He died at Padua in the year 1 596. In Ills 

 leventieth year, being on a journey, he was overturned 

 in his carriage, and was fo dragged by the frightened 

 horfes, that he diflocated an arm and a leg, and got fe- 

 veral wounds in the head ; however, he recovered in a 

 Ihort time from all the effects of this accident without 

 the affiftance of a phyfician. Till his death he retained 

 all his fenfes in their full perfection ; his fpirits were 

 briik, and his voice continued fo good, that at times, 

 when in company of his relations, he ufed to ling the 

 fongs he had learnt in his youth. In the laft years of 

 his life he took no more daily than twelve ounces of 

 chofen food, and fourteen ounces of drink. By thz 

 fame courfe of moderation, his wife alfo reached to 

 an extreme old-age, and furvived him fever al years.* 

 In his ninety-fifth year, he published a frnali treatise, 

 wherein he points out the means by which he had attain- 

 ed to fo great an age. I cannot refrain from tranfcri- 

 bing a paiTage from the work of this worthy old-man, 

 which fhews with how much fire he was ft ill able to 

 write at that very advanced period, J f " Is the vifit of 

 *? a friend, fays he, fo agreeable tons, when we are 

 " lick, of a friend who takes part in our fufFerings, 

 " who confoles and chears our drooping fpirits : how 

 " much more muft the rilk of a phyfician rejoice m 9 



* Thuan. hift. lib. xxxviii. 

 f Cornaro, della vita fobria, 



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