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60 Frasmus then when according to the account of the Destinys this life has left them; and by how much the less reason they have to live, by so much the more they desire it; so far are they from being sensible of the least wearisomness of life. Of my gift it is, that ye have so many old Nestors every where, that have scarce left ’em so much as the shape of a Man; Stutterers, Dotards, Toothless, Gray-hair’d, Bald; or rather, to use the words of Aristophanes, 1‘ Nasty, Crumpt, Miserable, Shrivel’d, Bald, Toothless, and wanting their Baubles’: yet so delighted with life and to be thought young, that one dies his gray hairs; another covers his baldness with a Periwigg; another gets a set of new Teeth ; another falls desperately in love with a young Wench, and keeps more flickering about her than a young man would have been asham’d of. For to see such an old crooked piece, with one foot in the grave, to marrie a plump young Wench, and that too without a portion, is so common that men almost expect to be commended for ’t. But the best sport of all is to 1 pur@vras, kupods, d0Movs, purods, pad@vras, vadods, Kal ’ ’ , ’ , ? YwXods.
