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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 com¬
mended for ’t. But the best sport of all is to
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