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Old Parr. 
This person lived to the vast age of 152 years. But as his life is 
publicly known, we shall only state in this place the following lines 
respecting him, from Taylor the Water Poet r 
Good wholesome labour was his exercise, 
Down with the lamb, and with the lark would rise ; 
In mire and toiling sw^at he spent the day. 
And to his team he whistled time away; 
The cock his night-clock, and till day was done. 
His watch and chief sun-dial was the sun. 
He was of old Pythagoras’ opinion. 
That green cheese was most wholesome with an onion ; 
Coarse meslitf bread, and for his daily swig. 
Milk, butter-milk, and water, whey and whig : 
Sometimes metheglin, and, by fortune happy. 
He sometimes sipp’d a cup of ale most nappy, 
Cider or perry, w hen he did repair 
T’ a Whitsun-ale wake, wedding, or a fair ; 
Or when in Christmas-time he was a guest 
^ At his good landlord’s house amongst the rest ; 
Else he had little leisure-time to waste ; 
Or at the ale-house huff-cap ale to taste. — 
His physic was good butter, which the soil 
Of Salop yields, more sweet than Candy oil ; 
And garlic he esteem’d above the rate 
Of Venice treacle, or best mithridate. 
He entertain’d no gout, no ache he felt. 
The air was good and temperate where he dwelt ; 
While mavisses and sweet-tongued nightingales 
Did chant him roundelays and madrigals. 
Thus living within bounds of nature’s laws. 
Of his long lasting life may be some cause. 
And the same writer describes him in the two following lines : 
From head to heel, his body had all over 
A quick-set, thick-set, natural hairy cover. 
Oliver Cromwell. 
Oliver Cromwell is well known as being the Lord Protector of 
the Commonwealth of England, and one of the most extraordinary per- 
sons mentioned in history. He was born at Huntingdon, April 25, 
1699, and received the name of Oliver, from his uncle Sir Oliver 
Cromwell, who was his godfather. His father, Robert Cromwell, esq. 
second son of Sir Henry Cromwell, knight, enjoyed an estate in 
or near Huntingdon, of about three hundred pounds a year ; and to 
ease the expenses incident to a numerous progeny. Carried on, besides 
an extensive trade in the brewery ; and being fond of a private and 
domestic life, he lived and died in that town. 
