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1 5| Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is 2 5| s favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen 3 8| companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses. So as a man 4 9| persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious. 5 11| require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will be still 6 14| mobile; according to the old opinion: which is, that 7 21| lost their aim; so as the old rule, to know a fool from 8 23| that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to 9 32| children; but now it is old, it begets fewer: for I 10 41| is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost 11 41| more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream 12 41| because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity, 13 41| shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, 14 41| admitted nearer to God than old, because vision, is a clearer 15 56| reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only 16 57| than the people of the Old World. And it is much more 17 57| reduced; and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry 18 58| than the people of the Old World. And it is much more 19 58| reduced; and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry