_Not upon _Cicero's_ ground, because I have liv'd them well._] I suppose he alludes to an expression in an Epistle of _Cicero_, written in his Exile, to his wife and children, where he hath these words to his wife: _Quod reliquum est, te sustenta mea Terentia ut potes, honestissime viximus, floruimus. Non vitium nostrum sed virtus nos afflixit, peccatum est nullum nisi quod non unà animum cum ornamentis amisimus_, l. 24, Ep. 4. _And stand in need of _Eson's_ bath before threescore._] _Eson_ was the Father of _Jason_, and, at his request, was by _Medea_, by the means of this Bath, restored to his youth. Ingredients that went into it, and the description of _Medea's_ performance, _Ovid_ gives you, _l. 7. Metam._ _Interea calido positum medicamen aheno_ _Fervet et exultat, spumisq; tumentibus albet._ _Illic Æmonia radices valle resectas, Seminaq; et flores, et succos incoquit atros Adjicet extremo lapides Oriente petitos, Et quas Oceani refluum mare lavit arenas: Addidit exceptas lunæ de nocte pruinas, Et Strigis infames ipsis cum carnibus alas, Inq; virum soliti vultus mutare ferinos Ambigui prosecta lupi, nec defuit illi Squamea Cinyphei tenuis membrana Chelidri, Vivacisq; jecur cervi; quibus insuper addit Ora caputq; novem cornicis secula passæ. His et mille aliis, postquam sine nomine rebus Propositum instruxit mortali barbara munus Arenti ramo jampridem mitis olivæ Omnia confudit, summisq; immiscuit ima. Ecce vetus calido versatus stipes aheno Fit viridis primo, nec longo tempore frondes Induit, et subito gravidis oneratur olivis. At quacunq; cavo spumas ejecit aheno Ignis, et in terram guttæ cecidere calentes, Vernat humus, floresq; et mollia pabula surgunt. Quæ simulac vidit, stricto Medea recludit Ense senis jugulum, veteremq; extare cruorem Passa replet succis, quos postquam combibit Æson, Aut ore acceptas, aut vulnere, barba comœq; Cunitie posita, nigrum rapuere colorem. Pulsa fugit macies: abeunt pallorq; situsque: Adjectoq; cavæ supplentur corpore rugæ; Membraq; luxuriant. Æson miratur, et olim Ante quater denos hunc se reminiscitur annos, Dissimilemq; animum subiit, ætate relicta._ [262-293.] _Sect. 44. Pag. 62._ _Extol the Suicide of_ Cato.] As doth _Seneca_ in several places; but _Lactantius_ saith, he cast away his life, to get the reputation of a _Platonick_ Philosopher, and not for fear of _Cæsar_; and 'tis very probable, he was in no great fear of death, when he slept so securely the night before his death, as the story reports of him. _Pag. 63._