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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01992	The wise vieillard, or old man. Translated out of French into English by an obscure Englishman, a friend and fauourer of all wise old-men; Sage vieillard. English	Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Williamson, Thomas, 1593-1639.; T. W., obscure Englishman.	1621 (1621)	STC 12136; ESTC S103357	144,385	222

and stooping in the showlders and be still an able and practised man And that this is true Cicero giues vs some examples Neither the Kings counsell Table sayth he nor his Court of Common-pleas nor my Clients for whom I pleade at the barre nor my friends nor strangers can complaine that they lacke me or my helpe Zenophon reportes that Cyrus in a Discourse which he made a little before his death maintained that he neuer felt himselfe to haue a lesse able bodie in his age then he had when hee was young Cicero sayth further that when he was a childe he saw L. Metellus a very aged man so strong of body that he cared not to be young Masinissa king of Numidia could not be perswaded to goe couered with a Hatt on his head when he was fourescore and ten yeares old but in raine hayle frost and snow went bare headed Appius when he was very old blind gouerned a great familie had a spirit like a bow alwayes bent prepared and resolued to dare defye and wrastle with old age in such sort that he bore all the sway of Command in his house and kept all his family in so good awe and order that he was reuerenced of his children and beloued of his neighbors Some doe accuse old age in men that it makes them heauie headed and dull to haue no mirth nor musicke in them and to abandon and cast of all pleasures But if they account the follies fond iollities and gambolles of youth for true pleasures their accusation is false and they speake iniuriously of Old age which procures great good vnto vs blotting out quite whatsoeuer is most vicious and bad in young men to wit carnall pleasure a capitall enemies to vs all which headlong plungeth all those that are vassalls and slaues vnto her into gulfes of eternall perdition is the mother of gluttony drunkennesse whoredome adulterie of all dissolutenesse and debauched villanies and in fine is the cause of the ruines of Common weales and families Old men which are free from the coulp and guilt of these and the like vices and abominations haue lesse torture and torment of mind and haue the more reuerence and authoritie giuen them which is the Crowne of their age The approches of death seeme to strike a terror and astonishment into many old men But wretched is the man who all the time of his life hath not learned to make light account of death which he ought before hand to envre and frame himselfe to wish for and expect seeing death is his guide and conuoy to heauen and bringeth with him a dedimus potestatem to put him in possession of his euerlasting inheritance which the Sonne of God hath adiudged vnto him which iudgement is entred in despite of Sathan who continually in this world brings cauelling suites and actions against vs to molest and interrupt vs in our iust clayme thereunto More occasions and causes therebe of diseases in yong men by reason they are put to all hard labours and iourneyes whereby for the most part they do vntimely end their liues so that death doth as ordinarily seize vpon them as vpon old men Some doe reply that such yong men haue a hope to liue long but it is a foolish perswasion by reason that they take that which is doubtfull for sure and certaine and that which is false for true As the time of Autumne succeedes the spring time and Summer so there is nothing more naturall to old men then to die The death of young men resembles a great flaming fire which is not quenched but with much water but old men are like a dry chipp of wood or a small gloing fire which dyes and goes out of it selfe Why should wee mourne and lament for him who when he dies findes immortalitie and whose practise and studie hath beene from his tender youth to contemne death that his soule might be at rest in a place conuenient This is briefely the substance of that which Cicero in his Dialogue of old age doth handle more at large Christians haue more excellent remedies helpes and refuges against the miseries of old age and the assaults of death which hereafter in their order we will declare That old age hath his particular miseries in regard of the bodie and minde we are not now to dispute It is that which we are next to speake of CHAP. IX A more speciall Catalogue or numbring vp of some miseries in old men in regard of their bodies VErily that man which should take vpon him to maintaine that old age is exempt and priuiledged from all discommodities and miseries should reason against sence experience and nature it selfe which beares witnes against him For although the life of man from the beginning to the end hath no part of it free from diuers calamities which it is to resist and conflict and that man from his birth seemes to bee made to liue in paine and sorrow Yet wee must know and acknowledge that feeble and decrepit old age is incident to many particular miseries which are the causes that weake old men are commonly testie froward sad melancholy especially those who are cholerique fretfull and impatient by nature or are not armed and prepared before hand to vndergoe such assaults and to stoope to the miseries which the last age of their life shall lay vpon them It is a well worne saying That as lees and dregs doe sinke downe and lie at the bottome of vessels so the excrements noysome humours and all the miseries of our life doe settle in old age their last lodging place One compares very fitly the condition of old men to a little City halfe ruinous and decayed whose walles moulder away are almost all broken downe and is altogether vnprouided of munition and victualls to fortifie and succour it selfe if need require For wee see in all old men their eye sight by little and little to faile them that they are duller and deaffer of hearing their teeth to fall out their hands and feet to haue the palsie briefly this building of clay and spittle to haue many defects and decayes and daily to waste and impaire more and more expecting a totall ruine But the more these euills doe presse and molest vs the more we thinke vpon desire and expect to make an end of our painefull pilgrimage to hit the marke we ayme at to be quietly seated in our true dwelling place eternall habitation Those persons who from their youth haue learned to submit themselues to the diuine prouidence and to meditate and reuolue with themselues a better life doe with greater case sustaine and beare all the miseries of their long age And the weakenesse of body in old men doth not hinder them from doing that which is meete and behoouefull for them to doe But it is a great reproach and obliquie to old men if in the eye of good men without shame or feare of their great and soueraigne Iudge who is to bee feared