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...observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till...fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature. This is old age ; but then thou must outlive Thy youth,...

...before he was "for death mature" and to his inability to conceive of ripeness except in ambiguous terms: So may'st thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop...Mother's lap; or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature.4 Cognizant of the finitude of life as a physician and able to rationalize...

...Bianthanatos, or the Hemlock Society, however gloomy Michael's depiction of old age and its infirmities: "This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and gray; thy senses then Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgo To what thou hast,...

...existence culminating in a painful death Adam has just witnessed but rather live a contented life until "like ripe Fruit thou drop / Into thy Mother's lap, or be with ease / Gatherd, not harshly pluckt" (1 1.531 37). The proper conduct of the appetite, Michael suggests, can in part ameliorate...

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...530 The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till...So may'st thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop 535 Into thy Mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature: This is...