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©fthemiJries Which are Incident to all(gates. 54; are weakened, lame and fliffe, readie to finger and run be- caufe they cannot go, the fpirits languifh,the vital! heate de- cayeth, hauing firil (pent the natural! moifiure,and like the flame confumed that whereby it was nourifhed; the cares deafe, or thicke of hearing, the eyes bleared, the fight dim - med, the feeling henummed, the finch and tafle lofi and pe- tithed, the facewrinckled, the skin riueled,the teeth rotted, the breath corrupted,and in a word, the whole bodie enfee bled and difeafed.Vnto which we might4dde theinfirmities ofthe mind,wherevvith vfually in this age it is extraordinari- lycumbred,as the dulnefl'e of conceit and vnderflanding,the fliffe peruerfenes ofthe will, the decay ofinetnorie, the dif order ofthe affe lions : for being made tender with infirmi- ties they are ealily angred, and hardly pleated, apt CO con - ceiueiealoufcs.and fufpitions, and not fo readie to receiue fatisfaélion ; ouer heauie and farrow full, repining and com- plaining, and fenfclefly couetous and greedie in heaping vp wealth,when they are readie to kaue it, and haue notime to enjoy it. Ina word, whether we confider, the evils naturally incident to this age which refpeel the bodie or the mind, we mull needs conclude that it is full ofmifcries, CHAP. XXIIII.. Ofthe manifold miferiesontowhich all glares ofinenare fiebietit Nd thus haue I fhewed the miferies ()fall 'pax. ages.The like alto maybe Paid of al eflats oftbeni ¡cries and conditions of men, which are all fo incident unto ful of wretchednes,that eueryone-hauing finóle lifeand experience oftheir owne eutis, with ra- ther t°eo'e' to be any otherthen that they are; wheras ifall fhould bringthcir miferies to a common banker and plainly difcouer them to open vicw,ofiringto exchange eflates with one another ; euen thofe who moll complained efcheircondiioo,asbeingtnore wretched-then any other, feeing the common miferies incident to all degrees of men; no