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f4° Of themanfold,n iferiet which are i >itidenttoadose:. them ; with-innumetable otherenils,which it were too long' to fland vpon. §.Sens: Finally, if we attaine vnto old age, which all delire, and oftbe,genet none like; whatfhallwe there find but mifery and affíi &ion? incident weld for what is old age:but a continual) ficknes, the receptacle of `ge' all humane infirmities, and the prelude of death? And how - Cu x fbi bomi r:csoptantfe- foeuer men vfually_make it the chiefeharborough of their neítutem,quid hopes, and are-content tolearne in their childhood, and to aliudoptant,ni. take paints and care in their youth and riper age, chat now filaugats?nfi'r- hauing plentie,they may hue vpon the flocke,taketheir café, rnaeem. Au and enjoy their leafures contrariwife old age cormnin is guft.deCate- Y ter P g ch.z.rudebus. accompanied with fo-manv: infirmities, that though they . eap.s6. hauemuch, yet they enjoy little, though they may haue ma- ny fports, yet theyhaue fmall mirth and few delights. For to fay nothingofthofc who haue gray haires -and greene-wits, andbeing old in yearsare again children in vnderfianding; to letthempaffc wholofe the chiefepriuiledges -of chatage, for want of wifdomeand difcretion;and are flrong andvigo- rous in nothing which concerneth eirherbodie or mind but only in their vices and corruptions : to let them alone .who haue (pent their time fo ignorantly andrvnprofitablie,that they ate readie to die, -before they know what it is to hue, and to leaue the earth before they haue learned theway to heauen: how many othcrinfirmities and forrowe§do attend it, which are fufficient (ifgrace fippport not) to mäke it mife- rable? For then vfuailythe foule is vexed, and the confcience troubled with the errors and crimes of ill- guided youth,and with the wrongs, deceits, and oppreons committed in ri- perage:then the body is tormented 'with the ruffies and bruifes takenin youthfullfports,and violent exercifes,erifre- bled with the.cares, watchings, and labours fuflained in that age which isaccounted molt perfetl, and punifhcd for the intemperance, voluptuoufnes,fùrfetting and exce a of them both, with innumerable fickneffes and difeafes: then is the time when pallies, gouts,flone, flrangurie, collicke and in- numerable fuck like tortures chiefly fvvay : then the head ihaketh, thebacke floopeth, the ioynts tremble, the limmes art