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18 A PANEGYRECK Years a perpetual Spring. For look how your Hard plodding Students, by a clofe fedentary ale and meagre, as if, by a continual ‘Wrack of Brains, and Torture of Invention, their Veins were pump’d dry, .and their whole Body as-lufty as fo many Bacon-Hogs, | or Sucking Calves ; never in their Career of Piéafure to be arreſted with Old Age, if they could’ but keep themfelves untainted ftom the Contageoufnefs of Wifdom; with the Leprofie where~ of if at any time they are infe&ed it is only for Prevention, left they fhould otherwife have been too happy. For 2 more ample Confirmation of the Truth of what foregoes, it is on all Sides confefs’d, that Folly isthe beft Prefervative of Youth, and the moft effeGtual Antidote again Age. And ‘it is'a Never-failing Obfervation made of ‘the People of Brabanr, that, contrary to the Proverb: of Older and Wifer,. the more Ancient they grow, the more Fools they: are; and there is-not any one Country: whofe Inhabitants enjoy themſelves Better, and rubthrough the World with more Eaſe and Quiet. To thefe arenearly related, as well by A ffinity* of Cuftoms, asof Neighbourhood,’ my Friends: the: Hollanders : Mine 1 may well call them; fer they: ftiek fo clofe and ‘loving te me; :thatthey: are ftiled Fools to a Proverb; and yet’ fcorn to be afhanvd of theif Name. Well. Let fond Mortals go now. in aneedlefs ce ofme
