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

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            Bald betimes have lived long. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10311" xml:space="preserve">Alſo early gray hairs (howſoever they may ſeem fore-
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            runners of old age approaching) are no ſure ſigns; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10312" xml:space="preserve">for many that have grown gray be-
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            times have lived to great years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10313" xml:space="preserve">nay, haſty gray hairs without Baldneſs is atoken of long
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            life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10314" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, if they be accompanied with Baldneſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10316" xml:space="preserve">Hairineſs of the upper parts is a ſign of ſhort life, and they that have extraordinary
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            much hair on their breaſts live not long: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10317" xml:space="preserve">but hairineſs of the lower parts, as of the Thighes
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            and Legs, is a ſign of long life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10319" xml:space="preserve">Talneſs of Stature (if it be notimmoderate) with convenient making, and not too
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            ſlender, eſpecially if the body be active withal, is a ſign of long life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10320" xml:space="preserve">Alſo on the con-
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            trary, men of low ſtature live long, if they be not too active and ſtirring.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10322" xml:space="preserve">In the proportion of the body, they which are ſhort to the waſtes, with long Leggs, are
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0301-03" xlink:href="note-0301-03a" xml:space="preserve">38.</note>
            longer-liv’d than they which are long to the waſtes, and have ſhort Leggs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10323" xml:space="preserve">alſo they which
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            are large in the neather parts, and ſtreight in the upper, (the making of their body riſing,
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            as it were, into a ſharp figure) are longer-liv’d than they that have broad ſhoulders, and
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            are ſlender downwards.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10325" xml:space="preserve">Leanneſs, where the affections are ſetled, calm, and peaceable; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10326" xml:space="preserve">alſo a more fat ha-
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            bit of body, joyned with Choler, and a diſpoſition ſtirring and peremptory, ſignifie
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            long life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10327" xml:space="preserve">but Corpulency in Youth foreſhews ſhort life, in Age it is a thing more
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            indifferent.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10329" xml:space="preserve">To be long and ſlow in growing is a ſign of long life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10330" xml:space="preserve">if to a greaterſtature, the greater
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            ſign, if to a leſſer ſtature, yet a ſign though: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10331" xml:space="preserve">contrarily, to grow quickly to a great
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            ſtature is an evil ſign; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10332" xml:space="preserve">if to a ſmall ſtature, the leſs evil.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10334" xml:space="preserve">Firm Fleſh, a raw-bone body, and veins lying higher than the fleſh, betoken long
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            life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10335" xml:space="preserve">the contrary to theſe, ſhort life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10337" xml:space="preserve">A Head ſomewhat leſſer than to the proportion of the body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10338" xml:space="preserve">a moderate Neck, not
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            long, nor ſlender, nor ſlat, nor too ſhort; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10339" xml:space="preserve">wide Noſtrils, whatſoever the form of the Noſe
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            be; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10340" xml:space="preserve">a large Mouth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10341" xml:space="preserve">and Ear griſtly, not fleſhy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10342" xml:space="preserve">Teeth ſtrong and contiguous, ſmall, or
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            thin-ſet, fore-token long liſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10343" xml:space="preserve">and much more if ſomenew Teeth put forth in our elder
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            years.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">A</emph>
            broad Breaſt, yet not bearing out, but rather bending inwards; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10346" xml:space="preserve">Shoulders ſome-
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            what crooked, and (as they call ſuch perſons) round-back’d; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10347" xml:space="preserve">a flat Belly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10348" xml:space="preserve">a Handlarge,
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            and with few lines in the Palm; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10349" xml:space="preserve">a ſhortand round Foot, Thighs not fleſhy, and Calves
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            of the Leggs not hanging over, but neat, are ſigns of long life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10351" xml:space="preserve">Eyes ſomewhat large, and the Circles of them inclined to greenneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10352" xml:space="preserve">Senſes not too
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            quick; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10353" xml:space="preserve">the Pulſe in youth ſlower, towards old age quicker; </s>
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            reath, and longer than uſual; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10355" xml:space="preserve">the body in youth inclined to be bound, in the decline
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            of years more laxative, are alſo ſigns of long life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10357" xml:space="preserve">Concerning the Times of Nativity, as they refer to long life, nothing hath been ob-
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            ſerved worthy the ſetting down, ſave onely Aſtrological Obſervations, which we reje-
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            cted in our opicks. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10358" xml:space="preserve">A Birth at the eighth month is not onely long-liv’d, but not likely
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            to live. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10359" xml:space="preserve">Alſo Winter births are accounted the longer-liv’d.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10361" xml:space="preserve">A Pythagorical or Monaſtical Diet, according to ſtrict rules, and always exactly e-
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            qual, (as that of Cornarus was) ſeemeth to be very effectual for long life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10362" xml:space="preserve">Yet on the
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            contrary, amongſt thoſe that live freely and after the common ſort, ſuch as have good
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            ſtomachs, and feed more plentifully, are often the longeſt-liv’d. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10363" xml:space="preserve">The middle diet, which
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            we account the temperate, is commended, and conduceth to good health, but not to
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            long life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10364" xml:space="preserve">for the spare diet begets few Spirits, and dull, and ſo waſteth the body leſs;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10365" xml:space="preserve">and the liberal diet yieldeth more ample nouriſhment, and ſo repaireth more: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10366" xml:space="preserve">but the
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            middle diet doth neither of both, for where the Extreamsare hurtful, there the Mean is
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            beſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10367" xml:space="preserve">but where the Extreams are helpful, there the Mean is nothing worth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10369" xml:space="preserve">Now to that spare diet there are requiſite Watching, leſt the Spirits being few
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            ſhould be oppreſſed with much ſleep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10370" xml:space="preserve">little Exerciſe, leſt they ſhould exhale; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10371" xml:space="preserve">ab-
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            ſtinence from Venery, leſt they ſhould be exhauſted: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10372" xml:space="preserve">but to the liberal diet, on the
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            other ſide, are requiſite much Sleep, frequent Exerciſes, and a ſeaſonable uſe of Venery.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10373" xml:space="preserve">Baths and Anointings (ſuch as were anciently in uſe) did rather tend to delici-
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            ouſneſs than to prolonging of life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10374" xml:space="preserve">But of all theſe things we ſhall ſpcak more ex-
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            actly when we come to the Inquiſition according to Intentions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10375" xml:space="preserve">Mean while that of
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            celſus, who was not onely a learned Phyſician, but a wiſe man, is not to be omitted,
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            who adviſeth interchanging and alternation of the diet, but ſtill with an inclina-
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            tion to the more benign: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10376" xml:space="preserve">as that a man ſhould ſometimes accuſtom himſelf </s>
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