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Meditations of the Miseries of Old Age.

What is Old Age, but the receptacle of all Maladies? For if thy Lot be to draw thy days to a long date, in comes old bald-headed Age, stooping under dot age, with his wrinkled Face, rotten teeth, and stinking breath, testy with choler, withered with dryness, dimmed with blindness, obscured with dea•ness, over-whelmed with sickness, and bowed together with weakness, having no use of any Sense but of the Sense of pain; which so racketh every member of his body, that it never easeth him of grief till it hath thrown him down to his Grave.

WHat is Old Age, but the receptacle of all Maladies? For if thy Lot be to draw thy days to a long date, in comes old bald-headed Age, stooping under dot age, with his wrinkled Face, rotten teeth, and stinking breath, teasty with choler, wither'd with dryness, dim'd with blindness, obscured with dea•ness, over-whelm'd with sickness, and bowed together with weakness, having no use of any Sense but of the Sense of pain; which so racketh every member of his body, that it never easeth him of grief till it hath thrown him down to his Grave.