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| upon FOLE Y: Re only, by whofe ST TE y of Wi rames as is furnith’d with: quiet? And when once Tiads ay lefs of Dif up, and attempt to write Man her e does then foon decay Se a or their Humours ftagnate shes O flags, and their Blood grows LE a ity ceaſes, they proceed in Years «hi dadethe farthes backward in the Enjoym rach bes till wafpifh Old Age ei os itfelf as well as others, and tha ent oppreffive, ras none would em tt e unlefs out of Pity to their Sufferin oF ves intervene, and lend a cire best: ine 1 DESTRI , affifting them at a dead Lift, in the fame Method the Poets feign their Gods to fuccour è x Men, by transforming them into. New Geet Rond ich tue Sy or ranli th Le fe they have one Foot in the Grave to che Infancy again; fo as there is a great deal of Truth couch’d in that Old Proverb, Oxce yn Old Man, and Twice a Child. Now if any one be curious to underftand what Courfe I take to effet this Alteration, my Method is this: I bring them to my Well of Forgetfulnef* (the Fountain whereof is in the Fortunate Iflands, and the River Lethe in Hell but a {mall Stream of it,) and whenthey have there | fil’d their Bellies full, and wafh'd down Care, by the Virtue and Operation whereof they become Young again: Ay, but (fay you) they mieerly dore, and play the Fool: Why yes, thisis | what I mean by growing Youngagain: For what elfe is it to be a Child than to be a Fool and an Idiot ? Tt is the being ſuch that makes that Age foaeceptable: For who does not eſteem it fomeCz ~ whet
