He was fruitlesly put in hope of advantage by change of Air, and imbibing the pure Aerial Nitre of these Parts; and therefore being so far spent, he quickly found _Sardinia_ in _Tivoli_,[283] and the most healthful Air of little effect, where Death had set her broad Arrow; for he lived not unto the middle of _May_, and confirmed the Observation of _Hippocrates_[284] of that mortal time of the Year when the Leaves of the Fig-tree resemble a Daw's Claw. He is happily seated who lives in Places whose Air, Earth and Water, promote not the Infirmities of his weaker Parts, or is early removed into Regions that correct them. He that is tabidly inclin'd, were unwise to pass his Days in _Portugal_: Cholical Persons will find little Comfort in _Austria_ or _Vienna_: He that is weak-legg'd must not be in Love with _Rome_, nor an infirm Head with _Venice_ or _Paris_. Death hath not only particular Stars in Heaven, but malevolent Places on Earth, which single out our Infirmities, and strike at our weaker Parts; in which Concern, passager and migrant Birds have the great Advantages; who are naturally constituted for distant Habitations, whom no Seas nor Places limit, but in their appointed Seasons will visit us from _Greenland_ and Mount _Atlas_, and as some think, even from the _Antipodes_.[285] [283] _Cum mors venerit, in medio Tibure Sardinia est._ [284] In the King's Forests they set the Figure of a broad Arrow upon Trees that are to be cut down. _Hippoc. Epidem._ [285] Bellonius _de Avibus_. Tho' we could not have his Life, yet we missed not our desires in his soft Departure, which was scarce an Expiration; and his End not unlike his Beginning, when the salient Point scarce affords a sensible Motion, and his Departure so like unto Sleep, that he scarce needed the civil Ceremony of closing his Eyes; contrary unto the common way wherein Death draws up, Sleep let fall the Eye-lids. With what Strift and Pains we came into the World we know not; but 'tis commonly no easie matter to get out of it: yet if it could be made out, that such who have easie Nativities have commonly hard Deaths, and contrarily; his Departure was so easie, that we might justly suspect his Birth was of another nature, and that some _Juno_ sat cross-legg'd at his Nativity.