A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons…

But yet neither of these Inconveniences are chargeable upon Old-age it self. For as Tully well observes^x, the defects of strength, whereof we are sensible, do rather proceed from the Vices of our Youth, than from the fault of Old-age. An intemperate Youth transmits a weak body unto the time of Old-age^y, and then we lay all the blame on Age. Galen in one place tells us, About the 28th. year of my Age, when I knew there was a certain way to preserve Health, I ⟨p. 142⟩followed the same all my life after, so that I was never Sick but of an Ague for a day, and that seldom, and thereby he was vegete and brisk at Sevenscore years of Age. And M. Valerius Corvinus was strong enough to be the sixth time Consul, when he was an hundred years old. Whereas on the contrary a Luxurious youth, produces a loathsome Age. As the Thief in the Candle wastes it more than the Flame; so any Intemperance or Incontinence, doth wast the Strength and Beauty more than years.

But yet neither of these Inconveniences are chargeable upon Old-age it self. For as Tully well observes^x, the defects of strength, whereof we are sensible, do rather proceed from the Vices of our Youth, than from the fault of Old-age. An intemperate Youth transmits a weak body unto the time of Old-age^y, and then we lay all the blame on Age. Galen in one place tells us, About the 28th. year of my Age, when I knew there was a certain way to preserve Health, I ⟨p. 142⟩followed the same all my life after, so that I was never Sick but of an Ague for a day, and that seldom, and thereby he was vegete and brisk at Sevenscore years of Age. And M. Valerius Corvinus was strong enough to be the sixth time Consul, when he was an hundred years old. Whereas on the contrary a Luxurious youth, produces a loathsome Age. As the Thief in the Candle wasts it more than the Flame; so any Intemperance or Incontinence, doth wast the Strength and Beauty more than years.