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 1 1|      born in so corrupted an age, where anyone who wanted
 2 1|   men in the flower of their age, which is from eighteen
 3 1|    the City.~COSIMO: Of what age would you draw them?~FABRIZIO:
 4 1|  seventeen to forty years of age; if the army already exists
 5 1|    it, at seventeen years of age always.~COSIMO: I do not
 6 1|     as they were of military age, in order to instruct them
 7 1|  those of seventeen years of age, because the others having
 8 1|     would take them of every age between seventeen and forty
 9 1|  which is derived from their age, profession, and physical
10 1| conjecture, which is done by age and physical appearance.~
11 1|   having regard both for the age and quality of the men,
12 2|      all, whether because of age or other impediment, are