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inconvenience, would have future payments limited to
a hundred yeares continuance, relatively unto a humane
continuance: and many of ours have given them ternporall
limits. By this they judged that her generation
followed the common condition of humane things : as
also her life, by the opinion of Epicurus and Democritus,
which hath most been received, following these goodly
apparences. That her birth was seene when the body
was capable of her; her vertue and strength was perceived
as the corporall encreased; in her infancie might
her weaknesse be discerned, and in time her vigor and
ripenesse, then her decay and age, and in the end her
decrepitude.
glgni pariter cum corporc, et una
Crescere sentimus, panterque senescere mentem.¹
The minde is with the body bred, we doe behold,
It jointly growes with it, with it it waxeth old.
They perceived her to be capable of diverse passions,
and agitated by many languishing and painfull motions,
wherethrough she fell into wearinesse and griefe,
capable of alteration and change of joy, stupefaction,
and languishment, subject to her infirmities, diseases,
and offences, even as the stomacke or the foot;
mentem sanari, corpus ut cegrum
Cermmus, et flecti medicina posse videmus;²
We see as bodies sicke are cur'd, so is the minde,
We see, how Physicke can it each way turae and winde ;
dazled and troubled by the force of wine; removed
from her seat by the vapors of a burning feaver;
drowzie and sleepy by the application of some medicaments,
and rouzed up againe by the vertue of some
others.
corpoream naturam animi esse necesse est,
Corporeis quoniam telis ictuque laborat.*
The nature of the minde must needs corporeall bee,
For with corporeall darts and strokes it s griev'd we see.
¹ LUCR. 1. iii. 450. ² lb. 517. • lb. 176.