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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 Contage¬
oufnefs 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 rub¬
through 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; :that¬
they: are ftiled Fools to a Proverb; and yet’
fcorn to be afhanvd of theif Name. Well.
Let fond Mortals go now. in aneedlefs ce of¬
me¬