Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            Spain lived an hundred and thirty, or (as ſome would have it) an hundred and for-
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            ty years, of which he reigned eighty. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10129" xml:space="preserve">Concerning his Manners, Inſtitution of his
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            Liſe, and the time wherein he reigned, there is a general ſilence. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10130" xml:space="preserve">Cyair as King of
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            Cyprus, living in the I ſland then termed the Happy and Pleaſant I ſland, is affirmed
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            to have attained to an hundred and fifty or ſixty years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10131" xml:space="preserve">Two Latin Kings in Italy,
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            the Father and the Son, are reported to have lived, the one eight hundred, the other
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            ſix hundred years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10132" xml:space="preserve">but this is delivered unto us by certain Philologiſts, who though
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            otherwiſe credulous enough, yet themſelves have ſuſpected the truth of this matter,
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            or rather condemned it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10133" xml:space="preserve">Others record ſome Arcadian Kings to have lived three han-
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            dred years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10134" xml:space="preserve">the Country, no doubt, is a place apt for long life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10135" xml:space="preserve">but the Relation
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            I ſuſpect to be fabulous. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10136" xml:space="preserve">They tell of one Dando in Illyrium, that lived without the
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            inconveniences of old age to five hundred years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10137" xml:space="preserve">They tell alſo of the Epians, a part
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            of Ætolia, that the whole Nation of them were excceding long liv’d, inſomuch
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            that many of them were two hundred years old; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10138" xml:space="preserve">and that one principal man amongſt
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            them, named Litorius, a man of a Giant-like ſtature, could have told three hundred
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            years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10139" xml:space="preserve">It is recorded, that on the top of the Mountain timolus, anciently called
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            Tempſis, many of the Inhabitants lived to an hundred and fifty years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10140" xml:space="preserve">We read that
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            the Sect of the Eſſeans amongſt the Jews did uſually extend their life to an hundred
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            years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10141" xml:space="preserve">Now that Sect uſed a ſingle or abſtemious diet, after the rule of Pythagoras.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10142" xml:space="preserve">Apollonius Tyaneus exceeded an hundred years, his face bewraying no ſuch age: </s>
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            he was an admirable man, of the Heathens reputed to have ſomething Divine in him,
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            of the chriſtians held for a Sorcerer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10144" xml:space="preserve">in his diet Pythagorical, a great traveller,
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            much renowned, and by ſome adored as a god: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10145" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding, towards the end
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            of his life he was ſubject to many complaints againſt him, and reproaches, all which
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            he made ſhift to eſcape. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10146" xml:space="preserve">But leſt his long life ſhould be imputed to his Pythagorical
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            d et, and not rather that it was hereditary, his Grandfather before him lived an
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            hundred and thirty years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10147" xml:space="preserve">It is undoubted that Quintus Metellus lived above an
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            hundred years, and that after ſeveral Conſulſhips happily adminiſtred, in his old age
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            he was made Pontifex Maximus, and exerciſed thoſe holy duties full two and twenty
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            years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10148" xml:space="preserve">in the performance of which Rites his voice never failed, nor his hand trem-
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            bled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10149" xml:space="preserve">It is moſt certain that Appius cæcus was very old, but his years are not extant,
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            the moſt part whereof he paſſed after he was blind; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10150" xml:space="preserve">yet this misfortune no whit
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            ſoftned him, but that he was able to govern a numerous Family, a great Retinue
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            and Dependance, yea, even the Commonwealth it ſelf, with great ſtoutneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10151" xml:space="preserve">In
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            his extream old age he was brought in a Litter into the Senate-houſe, and vehe-
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            mently diſſwaded the Peace with Pyrrhus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10152" xml:space="preserve">the beginning of his Oration was very
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            memorable, ſhewing an invincible ſpirit and ſtrength of mind; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10153" xml:space="preserve">I have with great
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            grief of mind (Fathers conſcript) theſe many years born my blindneſs, but now I could
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            wiſh that I were deaf alſo, when I hear you ſpeak to ſuch diſ@onourable Treaties. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10154" xml:space="preserve">Marcus
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            Perpenna lived ninety eight years, ſurviving all thoſe whoſe Suffrages he had gather-
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            ed in the senate-houſe, being Conſul, I mean, all the Senators at that time; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10155" xml:space="preserve">as al-
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            ſo all thoſe whom a little after, being Conſul, he choſe into the Senate, ſeven onely
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            being excepted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10156" xml:space="preserve">Hiero King of Sicily, in the time of the ſecond Punick War, lived
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            almoſt an hundred years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10157" xml:space="preserve">a man moderate both in his Government and in his Life; </s>
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            a worſhiper of the gods, and a religious conſerver of Friendſhip: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10159" xml:space="preserve">liberal, and con-
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            ſtanſly fortunate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10160" xml:space="preserve">Statilia, deſcended of a noble Family in the days of Claudius,
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            lived ninety nine years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10161" xml:space="preserve">clodia, the daughter of Oſilius, an hundred and fifteen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10162" xml:space="preserve">Xe-
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            nophilus, an ancient Philoſopher, of the Sect of Pythagoras, attained to an hundred
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            and ſix years, remaining healthful and vigorous in his old age, and famous amongſt
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            the vulgar for his learning. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10163" xml:space="preserve">The Iſlanders of Corcyra were anciently accounted
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            long liv’d, but now they live after the rate of other men, Hipocrates Cous, the fa-
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            mous Phyſician, lived an hundred and four years, and approved and credited his own
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            Art by ſo long a life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10164" xml:space="preserve">a man that coupled Learning and Wiſdom together, very
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            converſant in Experience and Obſervation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10165" xml:space="preserve">one that haunted not after Words or
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            Methods, but ſevered the very Nerves of Science, and ſo propounded them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10166" xml:space="preserve">Demo-
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            nax a Philoſoper, not onely in Profeffion but Practice, lived in the dayes of Adrian al-
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            moſt to an hundred years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10167" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high mind, and a vanquiſher of his own
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            mind, and that truly and without affectation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10168" xml:space="preserve">a contemner of the world, and yet
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            civil and courteous. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10169" xml:space="preserve">When his friends ſpake to him about his Burial, he ſaid,
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            Take no care for my Burial, for Stench will bury a Carcaſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10170" xml:space="preserve">They replied, Is it </s>
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