“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“[ An idle youth, a needy age. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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(la) Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.
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