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

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            happy in the calamity of her husband and near kinsfolks, and in a long widow-hood
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            unhappy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10013" xml:space="preserve">not withſtanding much honoured of all.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10015" xml:space="preserve">The year of our Lord ſeventy ſix, falling into the time of Veſpaſian, is memorable;
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            in which we ſhall find, as it were, a calendar of long liv’d men: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10017" xml:space="preserve">For that year there
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            was a Taxing, (now a Taxing is the moſt Authentical and trueſt Informer touching
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            the ages of men;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10018" xml:space="preserve">and in that part of Italy which lieth betwixt the Apennine Moun-
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            tains and the River Po, there were found an hundred and four and twenty perſons that
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            either equalled or exceeded an hundred years of age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10019" xml:space="preserve">namely, of an hundred years
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            juſt, fifty four perſons; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10020" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred and ten, fifty ſeven perſons; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10021" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred
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            and five and twenty, two onely; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10022" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred and thirty, four men; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10023" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred
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            and five and thirty, or ſeven and thirty, four more; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10024" xml:space="preserve">of an hundred and forty, three
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            men. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10025" xml:space="preserve">Beſides theſe, Parma in particular afforded five; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10026" xml:space="preserve">whereof three fulfilled an hun-
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            dred and twenty years, and two an hundred and thirty: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10027" xml:space="preserve">Bruxels afforded one of an hun-
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            dred and twenty five years old; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10028" xml:space="preserve">Placentia one, aged an hundred thirty and one; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10029" xml:space="preserve">Fa-
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            ventia one woman, aged one hundred thirty and two: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10030" xml:space="preserve">a certain Town, then called
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            Velleiatium, ſituate in the Hills about Placentia, afforded ten, whereof ſix fulfilled an
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            hundred and ten years of age; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10031" xml:space="preserve">four, an hundred and twenty: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10032" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, Rimini one of an
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            hundred and fifty years, whoſe name was Marcus Aponius.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10034" xml:space="preserve">That our catalogue might not be extended too much in length, we have thought fit,
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            as well in thoſe whom we have rehearſed, as in thoſe whom we ſhall rehearſe, to offer
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            none under eighty years of age. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10035" xml:space="preserve">Now we have affixed to every one a true and ſhort
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            Character or Elogy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10036" xml:space="preserve">but of that ſort whereunto, in our judgment, Length of Life
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            (which is not a little ſubject to the Manners and Fortunes of men) hath ſome relation,
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            and that in a two-fold reſpect: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10037" xml:space="preserve">either that ſuch kind of men are for the most part long-
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            liv’d; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10038" xml:space="preserve">or that ſuch men may ſometimes be of long life, though otherwiſe not well diſpoſed
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            for it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10040" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt the Roman and Grecian Emperors, alſo the French and Almain, to theſe
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            our dayes, which make up the number of well-near two hundred Princes, there
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            are onely four found that lived to eighty years of age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10041" xml:space="preserve">unto whom we may adde the
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            two firſt Emperors, Auguſtus and Tiberius; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10042" xml:space="preserve">whereof the latter fulfilled the ſeventy
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            and eighth year, the former the ſeventy and ſixth year of his age, and might both per-
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            haps have lived to fourſcore, if Livia and Caius had been pleaſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10043" xml:space="preserve">Auguſtus (as was
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            ſaid) lived ſeventy and ſix years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10044" xml:space="preserve">a man of moderate diſpoſition; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10045" xml:space="preserve">in accompliſhing
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            his deſigns vehement, but other wiſe calm and ſerene; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10046" xml:space="preserve">in meat and drink ſober,
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            in Venery intemperate, through all his life-time happy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10047" xml:space="preserve">and who about the thir-
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            tieth year of his life had a great and dangerons ſickneſs, inſomuch as they de-
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            ſpaired of life in him; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10048" xml:space="preserve">whom Antonius Muſa the Phyſician, when other Phyſicians
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            had applied hot Medicines, as moſt agreeable to his diſeaſe, on the contrar cured
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            with cold Medicines, which perchance might be ſome help to the prolonging of his
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            life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10049" xml:space="preserve">Tiberius lived to be two years older: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10050" xml:space="preserve">A man with lean chaps, as Augustus
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            was wont to ſay, for his ſpeech ſtuck within his jaws, but was weighty He was
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            bloudy, a drinker, and one that took Luſt into a part of his diet; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10051" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding
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            a great obſ@rver of his health, inſomuch that he uſed to ſay, That he was a fool
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            that after thirty years of| age took advice of a Phyſician. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10052" xml:space="preserve">Gordian the elder lived
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            eighty years, and yet died a violent death when he was ſcarce warm in his Empire:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10053" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high ſpirit and renowned, learned, and a Poet, and conſtantly hap-
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            py throughout the whole courſe of his life, ſave onely that he ended his dayes by a
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            violent death. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10054" xml:space="preserve">Valerian the Emperour was ſeventy ſix years of age before he was
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            taken priſoner by Sapor King of Perſia, after his Captivity he lived ſeven years in
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            reproaches, and then died a violent death alſo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10055" xml:space="preserve">a man of a poor mind, and not va-
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            liant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10056" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding liſted up in his own and the opinion of men, but falling
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            ſhort in the performance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10057" xml:space="preserve">Anaſtaſius, ſurnamed Dicorus, lived eighty eight years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10058" xml:space="preserve">he
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            was of a ſetled mind, but too abject, and ſuperſtitious, and fearful. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10059" xml:space="preserve">Anicius Juſti-
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            nianus lived to eighty three years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10060" xml:space="preserve">a man greedy of glory, performing nothing in his
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            own perſon, but in the valour of his Captains happy and renowned; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10061" xml:space="preserve">uxorious, and not
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            his own man, but ſuffering others to lead him. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10062" xml:space="preserve">Helena of Britain, mother of Con-
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            ſtantine the Great, was four@core years old: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10063" xml:space="preserve">a woman that intermedled not in matters of
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            State neither in her Husband’s nor ſons Reign, but devoted her ſelf wholly to Religion; </s>
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            magnanimous, and perpetually flouriſhing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10065" xml:space="preserve">Theodora the Empreſs (who was ſiſter to </s>
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