alimentation or nourishment and the way of nourish the history nourishment  ought to be of a inferior nature and more simple substance than the thing  nourish plant be nourish with the earth and water live creature with plant man  with live creature there be also certain creature feed upon flesh and man  himself take plant into a part of his nourishment but man and creature feed  upon flesh be scarce nourish with plant alone perhaps fruit or grain bake or  boil may with long use nourish they but leave of plant or herb will not do it  as the order of the Foliatanes show by experience over great affinity or  consubstantiality of the nourishment to the thing nourish prove not well for  creature feed upon herb touch no flesh and of creature feed upon flesh few of  they eat their own kind as for man which be cannibal they feed not ordinary  upon man flesh but reserve it as a dainty either to serve their revenge upon  their enemy or to satisfy their appetite at some time so the ground be best  sow with seed grow else where and man do not use to graft or inoculate upon  the same stock by how much the more the nourishment be better prepare and  approach near in likeness to the thing nourish by so much the more be plant  more fruitful and live creature in better like and plight for a young slip or  tions be not so well nourish if it be prick into the ground as if it be graft  into a Stecke agree which it in nature and where it find the nourishment  already digest and prepare neither as be report will the seed of a onion or  some such like sow in the bear earth bring forth so large a fruit as if it be  put into another onion which be a new kind of graft into the root or under  ground again it have be find out late that a slip of a wild tree as of a elm  oak ash or such like graft into a stock of the same kind will bring forth  large leave than those that grow without graft also man be not nourish so well  with raw flesh as with that which have pass the fire live creature be nourish  by the mouth plant by the root young one in the womb by the navel bird for a  while be nourish with the yolk in the egg whereof some be find in their Crops  after they be hatch all nourishment move from the centre to the around  cumference or from the inward to the outward yet it be to be note that in tree  and plant the nourishment pass rather by the bark and outward part than by the  pith and inward part for if the bark be peel off though but for a small  breadth round they live no more and the blood in the vein of live creature do  no less nourish the flesh beneath it than the flesh above it in all  alimentation or nourishment there be a twofold action extrusion and attraction  whereof the former proceed from the inward function the latter from the  outward vegetable assimilate their nourishment simple without Excerning for  gum and tear of tree be rather exuberance than excrement and knot or knob be  nothing but disease but the substance of live creature be more perceptible of  the like and therefore it be conjoin with a kind of disdain whereby it reject  the bid and assimilate the good it be a strange thing of the stalk of fruit  that all the nourishment which produce sometime such great fruit shall be  force to pass through so narrow neck for the fruit be never join to the stock  without some stalk it be to be note that the seed of live creature will not be  fruitful but when they be new shed but the seed of plant will be fruit full a  long time after they be gather yet the slip or tions of tree will not grow  unless they be graft green neither will the keep long fresh unless they be  cover with earth in live creature there be degree of nourishment accord to  their age in the womb the young one be nourish with the mother blood when it  be new bear with milk afterward with meat and drink and in old age the most  nourish and savoury meat please best above all it make to the present  inquisition to inquire diligent and attentive whether a man may not receive  nourishment from without at least some other way beside the mouth we know that  bath of milk be use in some hectic fever and when the body be bring extreme  low and physician do prescribe nourish clyster this matter will be well study  for if nourishment may be make either from without or some other way than by  the stomach then the weakness of concoction which be incident to old man may  be recompense by these help and concoction restore to they entire length and  shortness of life in man the history before the flood as the sacred scripture  relate man live many hundred year yet none of the attain to a full thousand  neither be this length of life only to grace or the holy for there be reckon  of the father until the flood eleven generation but of the son of Adam by Cain  only eight generation so as the posterity of Cain may seem the long live but  this length of life immediate after the flood be reduce to a moiety but in the  post born for Noah who be bear before equal the age of his ancestor and Sem  see the six hundred year of his life afterward three generation be run from  the flood the life of man be bring down to a four part of the primitive age  that be to about two hundred year Abraham live a hundred seventy and five year  a man of a high courage and prosperous in all thing Isaac come to a hundred  and eighty year of age a chaste man and enjoy more quietness than his father  but Jacob after many cross and a numerous progeny last to the hundred forty  seven year of his life a patient gentle and wise man Ishmael a militar man  live a hundred thirty and seven year Sarah who year only among woman be record  die in the hundred twenty seven year of her age a beautiful and magnanimous  woman a singular good mother and wife and yet no less famous for her liberty  than obsequiousness towards her husband Joseph also a prudent and politic man  pass his youth in affliction afterward advance to the height of honour and  prosperity live a hundred and ten year but his brother Levi elder than himself  attain to a hundred thirty seven year a man impatient of contumely and  revengeful near unto the same age attain the son of Levi also his grand child  the father of Aaron and Moses Moses live a hundred and twenty year a stout man  and yet the meek upon the earth and of a very slow tongue howsoever Moses in  his psalm pronounce that the life of man be but seventy year and if a man have  strength then eighty which term of man life stand firm in many particular even  at this day Aaron who be three year the elder die the same year with his  brother a man of a ready speech of a more facile disposition and less constant  but Phineas grand child of Aaron perhaps out of extraordinary grace may be  collect to have live three hundred year if so be the war of the Israelite  against the tribe of Benjamin in which expedition Phineas be consult with be  perform in the same order of time in which the history have rank it he be a  man of a most eminent zeal Joshua a martial man and a excellent leader and  evermore victorious live to the hundred and ten year of his life Caleb be his  contemporary and seem to have be of as great year ehud the judge seem to have  be no less than a hundred year old in regard that after the victory over the  moabites the holy land have rest under his government eighty year he be a man  fierce and undaunted and one that in a sort neglect his life for the good of  his people job live after the restauration of his happiness a hundred and  forty year be before his affliction of that age that he have son at man estate  a man politic eloquent charitable and the example of patience Eli the priest  live ninety eight year a corpulent man calm of disposition and indulgent to  his child but Elizeus the prophet may seem to have die when he be above a  hundred year old for he be find to have live after the assumption of Elias  sixty year and at the time of that assumption he be of those year that the boy  mock he by name of bald head a man vehement and severe and of a austere life  and a contemner of riches also Isaiah the prophet seem to have be a hundred  year old for he be find to have exercise the function of a prophet seventy  year together the year both of his beginning to prophecy and of his death be  uncertain a man of a admirable eloquence a evangelical prophet full of the  promise of God of the new testament as a bottle with sweet wine Tobias the  elder live a hundred fifty eight year the young a hundred twenty seven  merciful man and great nourishing giver it seem in the time of the captivity  many of the jews who return out of Babylon be of great year see they can  remember both temple there be no less than seventy year betwixt they and weep  for the unlikeness of they many age after that in the time of our saviour live  old Simeon to the age of ninety year a devout man and full both of hope and  expectation into the same time also fall Anna the prophetess who can not  possible be less than a hundred year old for she have be seven year a wife  about eighty four year a widow beside the year of her virginity and the time  that she live after her prophecy of our saviour she be a holy woman and pass  her day in fast and prayer the long life of man mention in heathen author have  no great certainty in they both for the intermixture of fable whereunto those  kind of relation be very prove and for their false calculation of year certain  of the Egyptian we find nothing of moment in those work that be extant as  touch long life for their king which reign long do not exceed fifty or five  and fifty year which be no great matter see many at this day attain to those  year but the Arcadian king be fabulous report to have live very long sure that  country be mountainous full of flock of sheep and bring forth most wholesome  food notwithstanding see pan be their God we may conceive that all thing about  they be panic and vain and subject to fable Numa king of the Roman live to  eighty year a man peaceable contemplative and much devote to religion Marcus  Valerius cf see a hundred year complete there be betwixt his first and six  consulship forty six year a man valorous affable popular and always fortunate  Solon of Athens the lawgiver and one of the seven wise man live above eighty  year a man of a high courage but popular and affect to his country also  learned give to pleasure and a soft kind of life Epimenides the cretian be  report to have live a hundred fifty seven year the matter be mix with a  prodigious relation for fifty seven of those year he be say to have sleep in a  cave half a age after Xenophanes the colophonian live a hundred two year or  rather more for at the age of twenty five year he leave his country seventy  seven complete year he travel and after that return but how long he live after  his return appear not a man no less wander in mind than in body for his name  be change for the madness of his opinion from Xenophanes to a man no doubt of  a vast conceit and that mind nothing but infinitum Anacreon the poet live  eighty year and somewhat better a man lascivious voluptuous and give to drink  Pindar the theban live to eighty year a poet of a high fancy singular in his  conceit and a great adorer of the God Sophocles the Athenian attain to the  like age a lofty tragic poet give over whole to write and neglectful of his  family Artaxerxes king of Persia live ninety four year a man of a dull wit  averse to the dispatch of business desirous of glory but rather of ease at the  same time live Agesilaus king of Sparta to eighty four year of age a moderate  prince as be a philosopher among king but not withstand ambitious and a  warrior and no less stout in war than in business Gorgias the Sicilian be a  hundred and eight year old a rhetorician and a great of his faculty one that  teach youth for profit he have see many country and a little before his death  say that he have do nothing worthy of blame since he be a old man Protagoras  of to weep over see ninety year of age this man be likewise a rhetorician but  profess not so much to teach the liberal be as the be of govern commonwealth  and state notwithstanding he be a great wanderer in the world no less than  Gorgias Isocrates the Athenian live ninety eight year he be a rhetorician also  but a exceed modest man one that shun the public light and open his school  only in his own house Democritus of to weep over reach to a hundred and nine  year he be a great philosopher and if ever any man among the grease a true  naturalist a surveyor of many country but much more of nature also a diligent  searcher into experiment and as Aristotle object against he one that follow  similitude more than the law of argument Diogenes the Sinopean live ninety  year a man that use liberty towards other but tyranny over himself of a course  diet and of much patience Zeno of Citium lack but two year of a hundred a man  of a high mind and a contemner of other man opinion also of a great acuteness  but yet not troublesome choose rather to take man mind than to enforce they  the like whereof afterward be in Seneca Plato the Athenian atrained to eighty  one year a man of a great courage but yet a lover of in his notion sublime and  full of fancy neat and d I eat in his life rather calm than merry and one that  carry a kind of majesty in his countenance Theophrastus the etesian larrived  at eighty five year of age a man sweet for his eloquence sweet also for the  variety of his matter and who select the pleasant thing of philosophy and let  the bitter and Harsh go Carneades of Cyrene many year after come to the like  age of eighty five year a man of a fluent eloquence and one who by the  acceptable and pleasant variety of his knowledge delight both himself and  other but who live in Cicero time no philosopher or rhetorician but a  grammarian attain to a hundred year of age he be first a soldier then a school  master a man by nature tart both in his tongue and pen and severe towards his  scholar quintus Fabius maxim be augur sixty three year which show he to be  above eighty year of age at his death though it be true that in the augurship  Nebilitie be more respect than age a wise man and a great Deliberatour and in  all his proceed moderate and not without affability severe Masinissa king of  Numidia live ninety year and be more than eighty five get a son a dare man and  trust upon his fortune who in his youth have taste of the inconstancy of  fortune but in his succeed age be constant happy but Marcus Porcius Cato live  above ninety year of age a man of a iron body and mind he have a bitter tongue  and love to cherish faction he be give to husbandry and be to himself and his  family a physician terent Cicero wife live a hundred and three year a woman  afflict with many cross first with the banishment of her husband then with the  difference betwixt they last with his last fatal misfortune she be also  oftentimes vex with the gout Luceia must needs exceed a hundred by many year  for it be say that she act a whole hundred year upon the stage at first  perhaps represent the person of some young girl at last of some decrepit old  woman but Galeria Copiola a player also and a dancer be bring upon the stage  as a novice in what year of her age be not know but ninety nine year after at  the dedication of the theater by Pompey the great she be show upon the stage  again not now for a actress but for a wonder neither be this all for after  that in the for the health and life of Augustus she be show upon the stage the  three time there be another actress somewhat inferior in age but much superior  in dignity which live well near ninety year I mean the celebrated historian  luliam Augusta wife to Augustus Cesar and mother to Tiberius for if Augustus  his life be a play as himself will have it when as upon his deathbed he charge  his Frineds they shall give he a plaudite after he be dead certain this lady  be a excellent actress who can carry it so well with her husband by a  dissemble obedience and with her son by power and authority a woman affable  and yet of a Matronall carriage pragmatical and uphold her power but Junia the  wife of Caius Cassius and sister of Marcus Brutus be also ninety year old for  she survive the philippick battle sixty four year a magnanimous woman in her  great wealth happy in the calamity of her husband and near kinsfolk and in  long widowhood unhappy notwithstanding much honour of all the year of our lord  seventy six fall into the time of Vespasian be memorable in which we shall  find as it be a calendar of long live man for that year there be a tax now a  tax be the most authentical and true informer touch the age of man and in that  part of Italy which lie betwixt the Apennine mountain and the river Po there  be find a hundred and four and twenty person that either equal or exceed a  hundred year of age namely of a hundred year just fifty four person of a  hundred and ten fifty seven person of a hundred and five and twenty two only  of a hundred and thirty four man of a hundred and five and thirty or seven and  thirty four more of a hundred and forty three man beside these Parma in  particular afford five whereof three fulfil a hundred twenty year and two a  hundred and thirty brussels afford one of a hundred and twenty five year old  cake one age a hundred thirty and one a city of one woman age one hundred  thirty and two a certain town then call Velleiacium situate in the hill about  cake afford ten whereof six fulfil a hundred and ten year of age four a  hundred and twenty last rimino one of a hundred and fifty year who name be  Marcus Aponius that our catalogue may not be extend too much in length we have  think fit as well in those who we have rehearse as in those who we shall  rehearse to offer none under eighty year of age now we have affix to every one  a true and short character or eulogy but of that sort whereunto in our  judgement length of life which be not a little subject to the manner and  fortune of man have some relation and that in a twofold respect either that  such kind of man be for the most part long live or that such man may sometime  be of long life though otherwise not well dispose for it among the Roman and  grease emperor also the French and almain to these our day which make up the  number of well near two hundred prince there be only four find that live to  eighty year of age unto who we may add the two first emperor Augustus and  Tiberius whereof the latter fulfil the seventy and eight year the former the  seventy and six year of his age and may both perhaps have live to fourscore if  the celebrated historian and Caius have be please Augustus as be say live  seventy and six year a man of a moderate disposition in accomplish his design  vehement but otherwise calm and serene in meat and drink sober in venery  intemperate through all his life time happy and who about the thirty year of  his life have a great and dangerous sickness insomuch that they despair of  life in he who Antonius muse  the physician when other physician have apply  hot medicine as most agreeable to his disease on the contrary cure with cold  medicine which perchance may be some help to the prolong of his life Tiberius  live to be two year old a man with lean chap as Augustus be wont to say for  his speech stick within his jaw but be weighty he be bloody a drinker and one  that take lust into a part of his diet notwithstanding a great observer of his  health insomuch that he use to say that he be a fool that after thirty year of  age take advice of a physician Gordian the elder live eighty year and yet die  a violent death when he be scarce warm in his empire a man of a high spirit  and renown learned and a poet and constant happy throughout the whole course  of his life save only that he end his day by a violent death valerian the  emperor be seventy six year of age before he be take prisoner by sapour king  of Persia after his captivity he live seven year in reproach and then die a  violent death also a man of a poor mind and not valiant notwithstanding lift  up in his own and the opinion of man but fall short in the performance  Anastasius surname Dicorus live eighty eight year he be of a settle mind but  too abject and superstitious and fearful Anicius Justinian live to eighty  three year a man greedy of glory perform nothing in his own person but in the  valour of his captain happy and renown uxorious and not his own man but suffer  other to lead he Helena of Britain mother of Constantine the great be four  score year old a woman that intermeddle not in matter of state neither in her  husband nor son but devote her whole to religion magnanimous and flourish  Theodora the who be sister to wife of Monomachus and reign alone after her  decease live above eighty year a pragmatical woman and one that take in govern  fortunate in the high degree and through her good credulous we will proceed  now from these secular prince to the prince in the church S John apostle of  our saviour and the belove disciple live ninety three year he be right denote  under the of the eagle for his pierce fight into the divinity and be as a  among the apostle in speck of his burn love saint Luke the evangelist fulfil  fourscore and fouryeares a eloquent man and a traveller saint Paul inseparable  companion and a physician Simeon the son of Cleophas call the brother of our  lord and bishop of his Jerusalem live a hundred and twenty year though he be  cut short by dome a stout man and constant and full of good work Polycarpus  disciple to the apostle and bishop Smyrna seem to have his age to a hundred  year and more though he be also cut by martyrdom a man high mind of a patience  and unwearied labour Dionysius contemporary to the apostle S Paul live ninety  care he be call the of heaven for his high lie divinity and be famous as well  for his holy life as for his meditation Aquila and Priscilla first saint Paul  the apostle host afterward his Fellow-Hel-bers live together in a happy and  famous wedlock at least to a hundred year of age a piece for they be both  alive under pope the first a noble pair and prove to all kind of charity who  among other their comfort which no doubt be great unto the first founder of  the church have this add to enjoy each other so long in a marriage saint Paul  the hermit live a hundred and thirteen year now he in a cave his diet be so  slender and strict that be think almost impossible to support humane nature  therewithal he his year only in meditation and soliloquy yet he be not  illiterate or a but learned saint the first founder of monk or as some will  have it the restorer only to a hundred and five year of age a man devout and  contemplative though not unfit for civil affair his life be austere and  mortify notwithstanding he live in