mourners] Jer. IX. 17. and XXII. 18. Amos V. 16. See Job III. 8. silver cord] The marrow of the back-bone; be loosed, or lessened and contracted; whence old men grow crooked and bending in the back. Some take this for the sinewes, which are the ligaments of all the members; and are loosened by cold humours, and palsie-distempers. golden bowle] The heart, the blood of it, or the pericardion, or the brain pan, pia-mater, and pericranion. Some understand this of the cista fellis, the gaul and choler, which easily breaks out in old men. Some of the skull, parted in the stures and seams of it: diseases grow round, as a bowle-golden, for the colour and precious use of it in preserving the brains. or the pitcher be broken at the fountain] By fountain we may understand those principal parts, as the Heart, Head, Liver, from whence the vital supplies of spirit, heat, blood, sense, and motion are drawn into the body. By Cisterne the same aforesaid; or those places of the body whereinto those vital supplies are drawn and conveyed. By the pitcher, and wheele, the veins, arteries, and sinewes, which as subservient instruments do conveigh those supplies into the several parts of the body. Some understand by the pitcher, the bladder; and by the cisterne, the belly; that neither duly performe their office: by the fountaine or spring, the issuing forth of the water; the retentive faculty of the muskle at the neck of the bladder being broken, so that water, the urine issueth from him insensibly, without stay. the wheele broken at the cisterne] The Lungs broken off from their motion of inspiration and respiration by phlegme from the stomach, stopping and stifling the Lungs. The Lungs are as the wheele transmitting the aire in, and out, up and down: and when this free course is stopped, then follows ratling in the throat, and death after. The stomach is the cisterne from all the body.