Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

Were there nothing else to command my Regards for you, besides the Old Age, which your Out-living of Threescore Winters has brought you to the Border• of, That were enough to give you a room in my Esteem and Reverence, and Veneration. I cannot but approve the care of the Greek Language, to make no more than […] Letters Difference between the words for Old age, and Honour; and I cannot but applaud that condition of the World, whereto refers that famous Distic•• Magna fuit quondam Capitis Reverentia Cani,

WEre there nothing else to command my Regards for you, besides the Old Age, which your Out-living of Threescore Winters has brought you to the Border• of, That were enough to give you a room in my Esteem and Reverence, and Veneration. I cannot but approve the care of the Greek Language, to make no more than 〈…〉 Letters Difference between the words for Old age, and Honour; and I cannot but applaud that condition of the World, whereto refers that famous Distic•• Magna fuit quondam Capitis Reverentia Cani,

Inque suo pretio Ruga Senilis erat.

The Marks of Respect put upon Old age among Ancient Lacedaemonians have been the matter of […] pleasant and famous Histories; and the mode••. Venetians owe not a little of their Prosperity as well a Reputation unto the Figure which is allowed Old age among them. That people is not like long-lived, among whom, Fathers and Mothers, those that have lived long, are not acknowledged; that plant whose Younger Branches put a straight […] the Elder, is for that cause by the Ingenious Bota called, Herba Impia, or a Wicked Cudweed When Old such an one, is used as a Term of Disgrace, & when Javenis vetulo non assurrexerit, I still think that I see none of the smallest among the Verbal and Real […] of the World. But something beside,