Thus fades the oak i' the sprig, i' the blade the corn; Thus without young, this Phoenix dies, new born: 80 Must then old three-legg'd graybeards, with their gout, Catarrhs, rheums, aches, live three long ages out? Time's offals, only fit for the hospital!

"To produce such a graybeard of a book at two and twenty, Mr. Sandys," said Cathro, "is amazing.