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

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            hath good digeſtion, an old man bad; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11810" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s bowels are ſoft and ſucculent, an
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            old man’s ſalt and parched; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11811" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s body is erect and ſtreight, an old man’s
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            bowing and crooked; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11812" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s limbs are ſteady, an old man’s weak and trem-
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            bling; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11813" xml:space="preserve">the humours in a young man are cholerick, and his bloud inclined to heat, in an
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            old man phlegmatick and melancholick, and his bloud inclined to coldneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11814" xml:space="preserve">a young
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            man ready for the act of Venus, an old man ſlow unto it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11815" xml:space="preserve">in a young man the juices
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            of his body are more roſcid, in an old man more crude and wateriſh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11816" xml:space="preserve">the ſpirit in a
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            young man plentiful and boiling, in an old man ſcarce and jejune: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11817" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s ſpi-
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            rit is denſe and vigorous, an old man’s eager and rare; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11818" xml:space="preserve">a young man hath his ſenſes
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            quick and intire, an old man dull and decayed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11819" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s teeth are ſtrong and
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            entire, an old man’s weak, worn, and faln out; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11820" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s hair is coloured, an
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            old man’s (of what colour ſoever it were) gray; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11821" xml:space="preserve">a young man hath hair, an old man
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            baldneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11822" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s pulſe is ſtronger and quicker, an old man’s more confuſed
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            and ſlower; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11823" xml:space="preserve">the diſeaſes of young men are more acute and curable, of old men longer
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            and hard to cure; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11824" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s wounds ſoon cloſe, an old man’s later; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11825" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s
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            cheeks are of a freſh colour, an old man’s pale, or with a black bloud; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11826" xml:space="preserve">a young man
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            is leſs troubled with rheums, an old man more. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11827" xml:space="preserve">Neither do we know in what things
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            old men do improve as touching their body, ſave onely ſometime in fatneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11828" xml:space="preserve">whereof
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            the reaſon is ſoon given, Becauſe old men’s bodies do neither perſpire well, nor aſſimi-
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            late well: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11829" xml:space="preserve">now Fatneſs is nothing elſe but an exuberance of nouriſhment above that
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            which is voided by excrement, or which is perfectly aſſimilated. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11830" xml:space="preserve">Alſo ſome old men
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            improve in the appetite of feeding by reaſon of the acid humors, though old men digeſt
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            worſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11831" xml:space="preserve">And all theſe things which we have ſaid, Phyſicians negligently enough will
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            refer to the diminution of the Natural heat and Radical moiſture, which are things of no
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            worth for uſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11832" xml:space="preserve">This is certain, Drineſs in the coming on of years doth forego Cold
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            neſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11833" xml:space="preserve">and bodies when they come to the top and ſtrength of heat do decline in Drineſs,
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            and after that follows Coldneſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11835" xml:space="preserve">Now we are to conſider the Affections of the Mind. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11836" xml:space="preserve">I remember when I was a
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            young man, at Poictiers in France I converſed familiarly with a certain French man, a
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            witty young man, but ſomething talkative, who afterwards grew to be a very eminent
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            man: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11837" xml:space="preserve">he was wont to inveigh againſt the manners of old men, and would ſay, That if
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            their Minds could be ſeen as their Bodies are, they would appear no leſs deformed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11838" xml:space="preserve">Be-
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            ſides, being in love with his own wit, he would maintain, That the vices of old men’s
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            Minds have ſome correſpondence and were parallel to the putrefactions of their Bo-
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            dies: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11839" xml:space="preserve">For the drineſs of their skin he would bring in Impudence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11840" xml:space="preserve">for the hardneſs of
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            their bowels, unmercifulneſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11841" xml:space="preserve">for the lippitude of their eyes, an evil Eye and Envy:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11842" xml:space="preserve">for the caſting down of their eyes, and bowing their body towards the earth,
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            Atheiſm; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11843" xml:space="preserve">(for, ſaith he, they look no more up to Heaven as they are m
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            ont) for the
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            trembling of their members, Irreſolution of their decrees and light inconſtancy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11844" xml:space="preserve">for the
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            bending of their fingers, as it were to catch, Rapacity and covetouſneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11845" xml:space="preserve">for the buck-
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            ling of their knees, Fearfulneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11846" xml:space="preserve">for their wrinkles, Craftineſs and Obliquity: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11847" xml:space="preserve">and other
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            things which I have forgotten. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11848" xml:space="preserve">But to be ſerious, a young man is modeſt and ſhame-
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            fac’d, an old man’s fore-head is hardned; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11849" xml:space="preserve">a young man is full of bounty and mercy, an
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            old man’s heart is brawny; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11850" xml:space="preserve">a young man is affected with a laudable emulation, an old
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            man with a malignant envy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11851" xml:space="preserve">a young man is inclined to Religion and Devotion, by
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            reaſon of his fervency and inexperience of evil, an old man cooleth in piety
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            through the coldneſs of his charity, and long converſation in evil, and likewiſe
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            through the difficulty of his belief; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11852" xml:space="preserve">a young man’s deſires are vehement, an old man’s
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            moderate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11853" xml:space="preserve">a young man is light and moveable, an old man more grave and conſtant; </s>
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            a young man is given to liberality, and beneficence, and humanity, an old man to co-
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            vetouſneſs, wiſdom for his own ſelf, and ſeeking his own ends; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11855" xml:space="preserve">a young man is
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            confident and full of hope, an old man diffident and given to ſuſpect moſt things; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11856" xml:space="preserve">a
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            young man is gentle and obſequious, an old man froward and diſdainful; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11857" xml:space="preserve">a young man
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            is ſincere and open-hearted, an old man cautelous and cloſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11858" xml:space="preserve">a young man is given
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            to deſire great things, an old man to regard things neceſſary; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11859" xml:space="preserve">a young man thinks
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            well of the preſent times, an old man preferreth times paſt before them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11860" xml:space="preserve">a young man
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            reverenceth his Superiours, an old man is more forward to tax them: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11861" xml:space="preserve">And many other
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            things, which pertain rather to Manne
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            rs than to the preſent Inquiſition. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11862" xml:space="preserve">Notwithſtand-
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            ing old men, as in ſome things they improve in their Bodies, ſo alſo in their Minds,
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            unleſs they be altogether out of date: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11863" xml:space="preserve">namely, that as they are leſs apt for </s>
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