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Show . /. _ The Life of the Honoura~_Ie Author· _ _ ____ ---- :an Opportunity, of Seeing hh;t, a~d ~tfcourfing wzth hrm ·. 1 1 whereof one, carried his Lordilups Ptchue, [rom I-I:ad to Foot over with Him, into France ; AJ a Thtng, wbzch he lforej~w, would be much defiredthere; That Jo they 1Jtight e~/ joy, the Image ofbis Perf on ; As well as the In:age~ of ln.! ·Brain, his Books.· Amongft the refl, Marquts Ftat ; A French Noblen1an; who came Ambaffadour into England, in the Beginning, oj~1een Mary, Wife to Ki~g ~harles ; was ta~n, with an extraordinary Vefire of Seetng hzm: For n'bi!:b, he 11tade way,by a Friend : And when he ca111e to hint, beittg then, thrcnt.gh wea/tneffe, c~nfi;ud to biJ.Bed; The Ma~quis faltttecl /Jim, n'itb thi1 Htg~ Exp~cfflon ; That hts Lordfhip had been ever to H1m, hke the Angels ; of who1n he 1 had often heard ; And read 1huch of the1n in Books; But he never faw them. After which, they con trAfled ~tn iJztimate Acquaintance; A1zdthe Marquis did.fo much revere /Jim ; Thttt beJideJ JJiJ Frequent vifitJ ; They wrote Letters3 011e to the other, under the 1-itles, and Appellations, ofF ather, and Son. AJ fi'r hi1 1nany Salutati?n~, by Letters,fr(}m Forraign Worthies,detz~otecl to Learntng; 1 forbear, to mention them; Becaufe tlJat iJ a Thing, conrmon . to other Men, ~[Learning, or Note, toge~her wi~h hi;u. · But yet, in tbiJ Matter of his Fame, I jpeak.._., uz the Co~parative, onel)', and not in tbe Excluftve. For hiJ H.eputatt- 1 on i.r great, in hi~ own Nation,t~/fo; Efpecially amongft th~fe, that J.re., of a more Acute, a1zd ftJarp~r, J~gement: Whu,h I will exempl~fie, ·but with two Tefiunon1es, and no more. The Former ; When hiJ Hifiory, ~{King Henry, theSeventh was ttJ come forth ; It rJ,1aJ deliverul, to the old Lord Brooke, to be pen{ed by him; who when he had difpatched it, ·returned it to the Authour, with tbiJ Eulogy : Comlnend n1e, to n1y Lord ; And bid him take care, ·co get good Paper & Inke;For the Work is Incomparable. The other, fhall be that, of.DoCl:or Samuel ,Collins, late Provo~, of Kiogs Cglledge,in Cambiidge;A Man of1to vulgar Wzt; who affirmed unto me ; That when. he had read, _the 1 Book of the Advancen1ent ofLearntng; He found Htm- , felf; --~--- J TheLife of the I-lottoutable Author~ felfin a cafe, ro begin his Studies ;t new ; And that he had lofi, all the Tinte, of his ~tudying, before. lt ~ath ~e~n. defired; That fo~Jething jhould be fignijecl, tou~huz~ hu Dtet; A~dtbe.Reg~lncnt1 ofl.~is Health : Of whuh, tn regard, ofhu Untv~dall lnfig·ht into NatPrc l · ( h ) b ... . > . ' JC may, per ap~, e, ~o finm.~, aN ~xan1pl~. For bis f)iet ~ It waJ rather a plcnufu.ll, aud hbera11, l)iet, as l>is Sto _ mack wo.uld. bear it, theu a Refirained. 1YJJic!J be aljo co111 . nt~nded, zn btJ Book, of the Hifiory, ofLife, andDearh . In hu younger year.t, be was ~nuch givtM, to tbe Filter, and LigJ1_ tcr, fort ofMeats; .A.t of F o":l~s, and fi~eh li~: Bnt afterward, when/,~ grew 111ore JudtctouJ ; 1-le preferred the ftronger ~eats ;Jucb aJ the Shan1bJes afforded; A.1 thofe Meats, wbrch bred the "~ore firm, and fubfia1Jtililll Juyces, of the Bod~ ; And leffe Dtliipable: upon whieb, he would often mak.! hts Meal ; Though he had other Meats, up01z the Table. y011 may be Jure; H_e w~Hld n~t. neglect that Himfe!f, whic/; He Jo much extolled,1n hu Wnt1ngs; And that waJ tbeVJeofNi~ re: _Whereof he tooft, iJz the ~antity, of about three Gr~tin1, tn thzn, warm, Broatb, every Morning, for thirty year.t together., ~ext beforl h~s Death. And for Phyfic~, he did, indeed, ltv~ Phyfically, but not miferably: For hetoel{_onely, a Maceration ofRhubarb; Infufed i11to a Ora ugh t of White Wine, and Beer, mi11gled together, for the Space' of half an llo11r ; Once til fix,. or foveu Daye.t ; Immediately before his Meal,( wheth~r Dtnner,or St,epper,) tbat it 111ight dr;', the Body, leffi :. whrch, (aJ he faid,) did carry away frequently, tiJe Gro!fer Hutnours_, _of the Body; And not dimin!fb, or carry away,any oft he Sptnts ; As Sweating d(Jtb. And tbh was no Grievotu Thing to ta~. AJ for ether Phyfick_, in an ordinary w~y, ( w~a~foever bath bee1z V11lgarly )po4_en;) hetooftnot. Ht~ Rece~t,J!r the Gout; whicb did, co!ifiantly,eafo hintofhiJ P azn, wtthtn two H01er.r, IJ already Jet dow11 ill the End of the Naturall Hifiory. ) ' . lt may fo.e~t, the ~oon, ~ad.fome Principall Place, in the Ftgure, ofhtJ Nattvjty. Jior the Moon, waJ never in her Paffion, or Eclipfed, but he waJ fl~rpri't.,ed, with a [udde11 Fit, |