in 1563.

Previously the year commenced at Easter, so that the 1st January 1563 became the first day of the year 1563.]--and it is now but just fifteen days since I was complete nine-and-thirty years old; I make account to live, at least, as many more.

In the meantime, to trouble a man's self with the thought of a thing so far off were folly.

But what?
Young and old die upon the same terms; no one departs out of life otherwise than if he had but just before entered into it; neither is any man so old and decrepit, who, having heard of Methuselah, does not think he has yet twenty good years to come.

Fool that thou art! who has assured unto thee the term of life?
Thou dependest upon physicians' tales: rather consult effects and experience.