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

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            wife of Monomachus, and reigned alone after her deceaſe) lived above eighty years:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10066" xml:space="preserve">a pragmatical woman, and one that took delight in Governing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10067" xml:space="preserve">fortunate in the higheſt
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            degree, and through her good fortunes credulous,</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10068" xml:space="preserve">We will proceed now from theſe Secular Princes to the princes in the Church.
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0296-01" xlink:href="note-0296-01a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note>
            St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10070" xml:space="preserve">John, an Apoſtle of our saviour, and the Beloved Diſciple, lived ninety three years.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10071" xml:space="preserve">He was rightly denoted under the Emblem of the Eagle, for his piercing ſight into
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            the Divinity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10072" xml:space="preserve">and was a seraph amongſt the Apoſtles in reſpect of his burning Love. </s>
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            St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10074" xml:space="preserve">Luke the Evangeliſt fulfilled fourſcore and four years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10075" xml:space="preserve">an eloquent man, and a
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            Traveller, St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10076" xml:space="preserve">Paul’s inſeparable Companion, and a Phyſician, Simeon the ſon
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            of Cleophas, called the Brother of our Lord, and Biſhop of feruſalem, lived an hun-
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            dred and twenty years though he was cut ſhort by Martyrdom: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10077" xml:space="preserve">a ſtout man, and
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            conſtant, and full of good works. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10078" xml:space="preserve">Polycarpus, Diſciple unto the Apoſtles, and
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            Biſhop of smyrna, ſeemeth to have extended his age to an hundred years and more; </s>
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            though he were alſo cut off by Martyrdom: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10080" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high mind, of an heroi-
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            cal patience, and unwearied with labours. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10081" xml:space="preserve">Dyoniſius Areopagita, Contemporary
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            to the Apoſtle St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10082" xml:space="preserve">Paul, lived ninety years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10083" xml:space="preserve">he was called the Bird of Heaven
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            for his high flying Divinity, and was famous as well for his holy life as for his
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            Meditations. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10084" xml:space="preserve">Aquilla and Priſcilla, firſt St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10085" xml:space="preserve">Paul the Apoſtle’s Hoſts, After ward
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            his Fellow helpers, lived together in a happy and famous Wedlock at leaſt to an
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            hundred years of age a piece; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10086" xml:space="preserve">for they were both alive under Pope Xiſtus the firſt: </s>
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            a noble Pair, and prone to all kind of charity, who amongſt other their com-
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            forts (which no doubt were great unto the firſt Founders of the Church) had this
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            added, to enjoy each other ſo long in an happy marriage. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10088" xml:space="preserve">St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10089" xml:space="preserve">Paul the Hermite
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            lived an hundred and thirteen years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10090" xml:space="preserve">now he lived in a Cave; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10091" xml:space="preserve">his diet was ſo flender
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            and ſtrict, that it was thought almoſt impoſſible to ſupport humane nature there-
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            withal: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10092" xml:space="preserve">he paſſed his years onely in Meditations and Soliloquies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10093" xml:space="preserve">yet he was notilli-
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            terate or an Idiot, but learned. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10094" xml:space="preserve">St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10095" xml:space="preserve">Anthony, the firſt Founder of Monks, or (as
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            ſome will have it) the Reſtorer onely, attained to an hundred and five years of age: </s>
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            a man devout and contemplative, though not unfit for Civil affairs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10097" xml:space="preserve">his life
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            was auſtere and mortifying, notwithſtanding he lived in a kind of glorious ſoli-
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            tude; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10098" xml:space="preserve">and exerciſed a command, for he had his Monks under him. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10099" xml:space="preserve">And beſides,
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            many Chriſtians and Philoſophers came to viſit him as a living Image, from which
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            they parted not without ſome adoration. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10100" xml:space="preserve">St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10101" xml:space="preserve">Athanaſius exceeded the term of eighty
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            years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10102" xml:space="preserve">a man of an invincible conſtancy, commanding fame, and not yielding
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            to Fortune: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10103" xml:space="preserve">he was free to wards the Great ones, with the People gracious and
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            acceptable, beaten and practiſed to oppoſitions, and in delivering himſelf from them
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            ſtout and wiſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10104" xml:space="preserve">St. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10105" xml:space="preserve">Hierom, by the conſent of moſt Writers, exceeded ninety years of
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            age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10106" xml:space="preserve">a man powerful in his Pen, and of a manly Eloquence, variouſly learned both
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            in the Tongues and Sciences, alſo a Traveller, and that lived ſtrictly towards his old
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            age, in an eſtate private, and not dignified; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10107" xml:space="preserve">he bore high Spirits, and ſhined far out of
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            obſcurity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10109" xml:space="preserve">The Popes of Rome are in number to this day two hundred forty and one. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10110" xml:space="preserve">Of ſo great
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            a number five onely have attained to the age of fourſcore years, or upwards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10111" xml:space="preserve">But in
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            many of the firſt Popes their full age was intercepted by the Prerogative and Crown
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            of Martyrdom. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10112" xml:space="preserve">John the twenty third, Pope of Rome, fulfilled the ninetieth year oſ his
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            age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10113" xml:space="preserve">a man of an unquiet diſpoſition, and one that ſtudied novelty: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10114" xml:space="preserve">he altered ma-
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            ny things, ſome to the better, others onely to the new, a great accumulator of Riches
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            and Treaſures. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10115" xml:space="preserve">Gregory, called the twelfth, created in Schiſm, and not fully acknow-
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            ledged pope, died at ninety years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10116" xml:space="preserve">of him, in reſpect of his ſhort Papacy, we find no-
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            thing to make a judgment upon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10117" xml:space="preserve">Paul the third lived eighty years and one: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10118" xml:space="preserve">a tempe-
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            rate man, and of a profound wiſdom: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10119" xml:space="preserve">he was Learned, an Aſtrologer, and one that
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            tended his health carefully; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10120" xml:space="preserve">but, after the example of old Eli the Prieſt, over-indul-
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            gent to his Family. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10121" xml:space="preserve">Paul the fourth attained to the age of eighty three years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10122" xml:space="preserve">a man of
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            an harſh nature and ſevere, of an haughty mind and imperious, prone to anger; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10123" xml:space="preserve">his
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            ſpeech was eloquent and ready. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10124" xml:space="preserve">Gregory the thirteenth fulſilled the like age of eighty
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            three years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10125" xml:space="preserve">an abſolute goodman, ſound in mind and body, politick, temperate, full of
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            good works, and an alms-giver.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10127" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe that follow are to be more promiſcuous in their order, more doubtful in their
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            faith, and more barren of obſervation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10128" xml:space="preserve">King Arganthenius, who reigned at Cadiz </s>
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